Jill Bialosky

Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio University, an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Bialosky’s five collections of poems include Mock Heart: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026) and The Players (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015). 

Bialosky is also the author of four novels, including The Deceptions (Counterpoint, 2022) and The Prize: A Novel (Counterpoint, 2015). She is also the author of two memoirs: Poetry Will Save Your Life (Atria Books, 2017) and History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life (Atria Books, 2011). She was the coeditor, with Helen Schulman, of the anthology Wanting a Child (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998).

Bialosky has received a number of awards, including the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. She is currently an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.