Brimhall is the author of
Our Lady of the Ruins (
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012) and
Rookery (
Southern Illinois University Press, 2010).
Our Lady of the Ruins won the 2011
Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by
Carolyn Forché.
Rookery won the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and it was a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award.
Saudade, inspired by stories from her Brazilian-born mother, was published by
Copper Canyon Press in 2017.
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod was published in 2020 and
Love Prodigal in 2024. Brimhall's work has been published in
The New Yorker,
Poetry,
New England Review,
Ploughshares,
Slate,
The Believer,
The Kenyon Review, and
The New Republic. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily,
PBS NewsHour, and
The Best American Poetry 2013 and 2014. She has also worked with illustrator Eryn Cruft on poetry comics that have been published in
Guernica and
Nashville Review. The duo published
The Wrong Side of Rapture in 2013. Brimhall co-authored the
chapbook Bright Power, Dark Peace with Brynn Saito (
Diode Editions, 2013). Brimhall received a 2013
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry. She was the 2012 Summer Poet in Residence at the
University of Mississippi and the 2008–2009 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She has also been supported by the
Sewanee Writers' Conference,
The Writer's Center,
Vermont Studio Center, DISQUIET International Literary Program, and The Arctic Circle. In 2022, she was named
poet laureate of Kansas. ==Works==