Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Editor

JILL BIALOSKY’s newest work of poetry is Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems. Her newest prose work is The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother. Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of four other acclaimed collections of poetry, four critically acclaimed novels—most recently The Deceptions, a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize—and two memoirs, Poetry Will Save Your Life and the New York Times bestselling History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker; The Atlantic; Harper’s Magazine; O, the Oprah Magazine; The Kenyon Review; Harvard Review; The Paris Review; and The Best American Poetry, among others. She coedited with Helen Schulman the anthology Wanting a Child. She is an executive editor and vice president at W. W. Norton & Company and was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.