Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and The Last Usable Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). 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-hosted the Open Book series on Slate.com, and she is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. She lives in New York City.