Traci Brimhall is the author of five collections of poetry: Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024); Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020); Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), selected by Michelle Boisseau for the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Her most recent publication The Grief Artist (Sarabande, 2026) is her first nonfiction book. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New England Review, Ploughshares, Orion, Brevity, The New Republic and New York Times Magazine.

In 2025, she was Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2023, she received an Artist-in-Residence position through the National Parks Service at Bighorn Canyon. She also serves as the Poet Laureate for the state of Kansas (2023-2026).