Jill Bialosky is a poet, novelist, essayist, and editor. Her 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 poetry collections, four critically-acclaimed novels, including The Deceptions, finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, and two memoirs Poetry Will Save Your Life and New York Times bestseller History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life.

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