Deborah Tall

Deborah Tall has published two books of creative nonfiction: The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island (Atheneum, 1986) and From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place, set in upstate New York (Knopf, 1993; in paperback, Johns Hopkins Press, 1996). Tall is also a poet and edits the poetry journal Seneca Review. She is co-editor of The Poet's Notebook (Norton, 1995), and is at work on a memoir about family secrets. She has taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, since 1982, and has won a number of awards for her work. She lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, poet David Weiss, and their daughters Zoe and Clea.