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Jennifer Grotz received her BA in French, English, and Art History from Tulane University, her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University, and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. She is the author of The Needle, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2011; Cusp, winner of the Bakeless Prize for Poetry and the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters; and the letterpress chapbook Not Body. Her poems and translations from the French and Polish have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and Best American Poetry. Her essays and reviews have recently appeared in Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, and The Washington Post. She has received awards from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Camargo Foundation, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She teaches at the University of Rochester and serves as the Assistant Director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.