Deborah Garrison

Deborah Garrison is the author of a new book,The Second Child -- Poems, and A Working Girl Can't Win. She worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker for fifteen years and is now the poetry editor of Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at Pantheon Books. Garrison's new book of poems express the extraordinariness of everyday motherhood and family life. The shadow of individual and societal catastrophes plays throughout the book, but the exhilaration of a life fully lived triumphs here. She lives with her husband and three children in Montclair, New Jersey.