[2] She graduated from Florida State University with a BA, and completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College.

[4][5] Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012)[6][7] and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010).

Our Lady of the Ruins won the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by Carolyn Forché.

Her most recent book of poetry, Saudade, inspired by stories from her Brazilian-born mother, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017.

Brimhall co-authored the chapbook Bright Power, Dark Peace with Brynn Saito (Diode Editions, 2013).