Deborah Landau is the author of three collections of poetry: The Last Usable Hour, Orchidelirium, and The Uses of the Body, which is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in spring 2015. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, Boston Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Best American Erotic Poems, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University.