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Deborah Landau (born 1973) is an American poet, essayist, and critic.

Landau's "taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions" have been described as "confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg." Her meditations upon yearning and selfhood are said to remind us "of the nuanced beauty of language." Jennifer Michael Hecht has praised her poems as "Terrificly smart, witty, and slightly terrifying." Nick DePascal asserts that Landau's work "accurately matches form to content" and "leads the reader down a particular path through style as much as the meaning of the actual words on the page...." Publishers Weekly has described her work as "haunting," "stunning," "dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful."

Landau's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, The Nation,The Best American Erotic Poems, The Wall Street Journal, Poetry, The New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications. Landau grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduated with distinction from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Brown University, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in English and American Literature. In 2016 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Landau's most recent books are Soft Targets (2019) and The Uses of the Body, which was published in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press and was a Lannan Literary Selection.

Deborah Landau is currently a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

Bibliography

• Orchidelirium, Anhinga Press, 2003 (winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry)
• The Last Usable Hour, Copper Canyon Press, 2011.
• The Uses of the Body, Copper Canyon Press, 2015.
• Soft Targets, Copper Canyon Press, 2019. (winner of the 2019 Believer Book Award)
• Skeletons, Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming April 2023.

References

1. "Last Usable Hour, by Deborah Landau". Booklist Online. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
2. Michael Hecht, Jennifer (October 19, 2011). "Book Review Post - Deborah Landau's The Last Usable Hour". Retrieved July 7, 2012.
3. DePascal, Nick (Fall 2011). "The Last Usable Hour". Rain Taxi. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
4. "The Last Usable Hour starred review". Publishers Weekly. June 20, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
5. "Deborah Landau, Faculty of CWP | NYU". Cwp.fas.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
6. "Sense of Self". The New Yorker. 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
7. "Lannan Literary Program - Lannan Foundation". Lannan.org. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
8. "NYU Names Poet Deborah Landau Director of Its Creative Writing Project". Nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-27.

External links

• Deborah Landau website
• Deborah Landau LitHub profile

• American poets
• American women poets
• Stanford University alumni
• Brown University alumni
• Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• New York University faculty
• Living people
• American essayists
• American women essayists
• 1973 births
• Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan
• American women academics
• 21st-century American women writers