Raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and currently living in Chelsea with her husband, Laura Kasischke is the author of twelve collections of poetry and nine novels. Space, in Chains (2011) won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Where Now: New and Selected (2017) was longlisted for the National Book Award. Kasischke is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, and she has received many honors for her works, including the Juniper Prize, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and the Rilke Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Kasischke's novels The Life Before Her Eyes, Suspicious River, and Be Mine have been adapted for film. Kasischke's books have been widely translated and are particularly well-received in France.