From “Someone”

Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, and The Last Usable Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), a Lannan Literary Selection. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow, and received a PhD in English and American literature. For many years she codirected the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series. Landau is the director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.