Editor, poet, and novelist Jill Bialosky was born and raised in Cleveland. She earned a BA at Ohio University, an MA at Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Bialosky’s poetry collections include The Players (2015); Intruder (2008), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Subterranean (2001) finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and The End of Desire (1999) acquired by the legendary poetry editor, Harry Ford at Knopf. Her writing has appeared widely, including in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, the American Scholar, Paris Review and the Atlantic, Best American Poetry and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry.” Honors include the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. In 2014 she was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her contribution to Poetry. Bialosky is an executive editor at W.W. Norton & Company. She lives in New York City with her family. Presented in partnership with FIU Writers on the Bay Series.