Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. she studied at Ohio University and received a Masters of Arts degree from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. Her poems have been published in many magazines, including Partisan Review and TriQuarterly, and have received a number of awards. She is currently an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.