Jessica Greenbaum is the author of the three books of poems: the award-winning collection Inventing Difficulty (2000),The Two Yvonnes (2012), chosen by Library Journal as one of the year’s best books of poems, and Spilled and Gone (2019), about which Tony Hoagland said, “When I read it, I feel myself open and relax into the world.” A recipient of awards from the NEA and the Poetry Society of America, she teaches inside and outside academia in New York City.