Jill Bialosky is the author of four acclaimed col­lec­tions of poet­ry, most recent­ly The Play­ers; three crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nov­els, most recent­ly, The Prize; a New York Times best-sell­ing mem­oir, His­to­ry of a Sui­cide: My Sis­ter’s Unfin­ished Life; and Poet­ry Will Save Your Life: A Mem­oir. Her poems and essays have appeared in Best Amer­i­can Poet­ry, The New York­er, The Atlantic, Harper’s Mag­a­zine, O, The Oprah Mag­a­zine, The Keny­on Review, Har­vard Review, and The Paris Review, among oth­ers. She coedit­ed, with Helen Schul­man, the anthol­o­gy Want­i­ng a Child. She is exec­u­tive edi­tor and vice pres­i­dent at W. W. Nor­ton & Com­pa­ny. Her work has been a final­ist for the James Laugh­lin Prize, the Pat­ter­son Prize, and Books for a Bet­ter Life. In 2014, she was hon­ored by the Poet­ry Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca for her dis­tin­guished con­tri­bu­tion to poet­ry. She lives in New York City.