The winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes, Jill
McDonough is the author of Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), Where
You Live (Salt, 2012), and Reaper (Alice James, 2017). The recipient of fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of
Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston
University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online. Her fifth poetry collection, Here All Night, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.