Suzanne Buffam is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently A Pillow Book (2016), named of the 10 Best Books of Poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and A Public Space, among others, and has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Heian Ballard Writers’ Trust, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She has taught Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Banff Center, and in the University of Guelph's Summer Mentorship program, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.