Deborah Garrison was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and educated at Brown University and New York University. For 15 years she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker and is now the poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at Pantheon Books. She lives with her husband and three children in Montclair, New Jersey. She has published two collections, A Working Girl Can’t Win (Faber, 1999) and The Second Child (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).
