Jill Bialosky

Jill Bialosky’s newest volume of poetry, Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections (2020), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry; three critically acclaimed novels, including The Prize (2015) and, most recently, The Deceptions (2022); and two memoirs, Poetry Will Save Your Life (2017) and the New York Times best-selling History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life (2011). Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, O Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Paris Review, and Best American Poetry, among others. She co-edited (with Helen Schulman) the anthology Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age (1998). She is an executive editor and vice president at W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014, she was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.