Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000, Vintage 2002), and two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000) and Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming Council of the Arts Fellowship, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly
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