Jill Bialosky
Biography
Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky's newest volume of poetry, ASYLUM: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, four critically acclaimed novels --- including THE PRIZE and, most recently, THE DECEPTIONS --- and two memoirs, POETRY WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE and the New York Times bestselling memoir, HISTORY OF A SUICIDE: My Sister’s Unfinished Life.
Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, O Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Paris Review and Best American Poetry, among others. She co-edited with Helen Schulman the anthology, WANTING A CHILD. 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.
Jill Bialosky