Deborah Landau

Deborah Landau is the author of two collections of poetry: The Last Usable Hour, a Lannan Literary Selection published by Copper Canyon Press, and Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Grand Street, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Best American Erotic Poems, The Wall Street Journal, and The Harvard Review, and have been translated into Mongolian, Romanian, Russian, and Greek. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and co-hosted the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com She is currently Clinical Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU. Photo © by Sarah Shatz