Deborah Tall

Deborah Tall is the author of four books of poems, most recently SUMMONS, which was chosen for the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize by Charles Simic and published by Sarabande Books. She is also author of two books of nonfiction, THE ISLAND OF THE WHITE COW: MEMORIES OF AN IRISH ISLAND (Atheneum) and FROM WERE WE STAND: RECOVERING A SENSE OF PLACE (Knopf; paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press. A new book of nonfiction, A FAMILY OF STRANGERS, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. Tall co-edited the anthology THE POET'S NOTEBOOK (Norton) with Stephen Kuusisto and David Weiss and has edited the literary journal SENECA REVIEW since 1982.