Poetry Reading with Jill Bialosky

Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts at Ohio University, a Master of Arts from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of three novels, House Under Snow The Life Room and most recently, The Prize; four volumes of poetry, The End of Desire, Subterranean, a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Intruder, a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize and The Players. She has published two works of nonfiction, History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award and the Ohioiana Book Award in nonfiction and Poetry Will Save Your Life. . She co-edited with Helen Schulman, Wanting a Child. Bialosky’s poems and essays have been published in many magazines, among them Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Harpers, O, the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry and The Yale Review.

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