Jill Bialosky

Jill Bialosky‘s Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections is forthcoming in August from Knopf.   She is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently The Players; three critically acclaimed novels, most recently, The Prize, and two works of prose, Poetry Will Save Your Life and a New York Times bestselling memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New YorkerThe Atlantic MonthlyHarper’sO MagazineThe Kenyon ReviewHarvard Review, and Paris Review 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.

  • flail, snap, struggle & These Long Afternoons

    strangle, some eaten out by an infestation