Patricia Traxler

Patricia Traxler is a two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe. She has also served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet at Ohio State University, and as a visiting poet at many other universities around the U.S. Her work has appeared widely in such periodicals as The Nation, The Boston Review, AGNI, Ms. Magazine, New Letters, Ploughshares, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times Literary Supplement, as well as in the Best American Poetry anthology series and in Robert Pinsky’s anthology The Handbook of Heartbreak. Her novel Blood (St. Martin’s Press) was also published in an Ireland/UK edition, and translated into Spanish, German, and Swedish. Born and raised in San Diego, she now lives and teaches in Kansas. Naming the Fires is her fourth poetry collection.