Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, 2000), and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia, 2000), Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University, 2002), and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). A hybrid photo-text memoir titled Intimate, which includes poems, nonfiction, fiction, and photography, is forthcoming from Tupelo in 2011.