{"id":49404,"date":"2016-10-11T00:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49404"},"modified":"2016-10-11T00:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:49:27","slug":"paisley-rekdal-wins-the-2016-awp-award-for-creative-nonfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49404","title":{"rendered":"Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/05\/paisley-rekdal-wins-the-2016-awp-award-for-creative-nonfiction\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Georgia Press<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/05\/paisley-rekdal-wins-the-2016-awp-award-for-creative-nonfiction\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ugapress.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/paisley-rekdal-hires-austen-diamond-photography.jpg?w=1392\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/english.utah.edu\/profile.php?unid=u0398961\" target=\"_blank\">Paisley Rekdal<\/a> (photo credit: Austen Diamond)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/english.utah.edu\/profile.php?unid=u0398961\" target=\"_blank\">Paisley Rekdal<\/a> for winning this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/index.php\/series\/AWP\" target=\"_blank\">Association of Writers &amp; Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction<\/a> with her work <em>The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam<\/em>. Rekdal is an essayist, photographer, and poet. She is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9320\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee<\/em><\/a>, a book of essays; a photo-text memoir called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25509\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Intimate<\/em><\/a>; and five books of poetry: A <em>Crash of Rhinos<\/em>, <em>Six Girls without Pants<\/em>, <em>The Invention of the Kaleidoscope<\/em>, <em>Imaginary Vessels<\/em>, and <em>Animal Eye<\/em>. She has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work. She currently holds the position of managing editor at <em>Mapping Salt Lake City<\/em>, a community-written web atlas of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salt_Lake_City\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake City<\/a> of which she is creator. She is a professor of English at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<p>Paisley Rekdal\u2019s <em>The Broken Country<\/em> will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2017&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire press release <a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/05\/paisley-rekdal-wins-the-2016-awp-award-for-creative-nonfiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction University of Georgia Press 2016-10-05 Paisley Rekdal (photo credit: Austen Diamond) Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for winning this year\u2019s Association of Writers &amp; Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. 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