• Last book of poetry, Animal Eye,” named one of the top 5 poetry books of 2012 by Publishers Weekly • Interested in multi-media essays and poems with strongly historical influences • Book is illustrated with incredible Andrea Modica photographs of skulls unearthed at the Colorado Mental Health Institute • Seattle area local and current resident of Salt Lake City • Mental illness and constructions of American femininity are heavily present in this work • Rekdal is on the faculty of Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature