Deborah Landau: Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She co-hosts Open Book on Slate.com and is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. She lives in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.