Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emeritus. Her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR, featured in US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's ""American Life in Poetry"" and published in journals including The Paris Review, North American Review, and The Yale Review. Other books of poems include Perfectly Normal, and The Afterlives of Trees, a Kansas Notable Book and winner of the Nelson Award.

Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emeritus. Her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR, featured in US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's ""American Life in Poetry"" and published in journals including The Paris Review, North American Review, and The Yale Review. Other books of poems include Perfectly Normal, and The Afterlives of Trees, a Kansas Notable Book and winner of the Nelson Award.