Laurie Sheck was born in The Bronx, New York, and now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter. She has received many awards for her poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. She has published her poems widely in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, and has had work included in The Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Poetry 1991. She has taught at several colleges anti universities.