Jill Bialosky  (b. 1957) LINKS Jill Bialosky—The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=243&CFID=2524903&CFTOKEN=64844529 The Academy of American Poets offers a brief biography and a photograph of Bialosky, as well as a sample of her work. Salon: Mothers Who Think http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/05/05feature.html Jill Bialosky, co-editor of the anthology Wanting A Child, which tells “the stories of writers whose desire to be parents came far easier than the children they longed for,” speaks openly about her own experiences in these excerpts from her interview with Salon. Bold Type: Poems by Jill Bialosky http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0499/bialosky/poem.html This Web site reprints Jill Bialosky’s poem, “A Sister’s Story,” from her collection The End of Desire. BIOGRAPHY Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she earned a B.A. at Ohio University, an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. The End of Desire: Poems (1997), her first collection, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. She co-edited (with Helen Schulman) Wanting a Child (1998). Her most recent poems appear in Subterranean (2001). She has won, among several other awards, the Elliot Coleman Award in poetry. Currently, she is an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.