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, 2007).

'With their short lines, sneaky rhymes, and casual leaps of metaphor, Garrison's poems have a Dickinsonian intensity' - John Updike'It takes agility and imagination to write well about the ordinary...Garrison's first book won readers...with directness, modesty and unshowy wit. Those qualities also mark her new collection, The Second Child. This time the material includes parenthood and the attacks of September 11, 2001, with their aftermath...Garrison keeps her blessed and quotidian balance, in a remarkable way' - Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World 'Touching...the new poems are wonderful and different... This book...gives us equally weighted joys and sorrows' - Courtney Birst, Bookslut

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, 2007).

'With their short lines, sneaky rhymes, and casual leaps of metaphor, Garrison's poems have a Dickinsonian intensity' - John Updike'It takes agility and imagination to write well about the ordinary...Garrison's first book won readers...with directness, modesty and unshowy wit. Those qualities also mark her new collection, The Second Child. This time the material includes parenthood and the attacks of September 11, 2001, with their aftermath...Garrison keeps her blessed and quotidian balance, in a remarkable way' - Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World 'Touching...the new poems are wonderful and different... This book...gives us equally weighted joys and sorrows' - Courtney Birst, Bookslut