Lizzie Borden in Love

Julianna Baggott is the author of the collection of poems, This Country of Mothers, published by Southern Illinois University Press, and four novels - the national bestseller Girl Talk, The Miss America Family, The Madam, and Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions, cowritten with Steve Almond. She also writes novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the Best American Poetry series. Baggott teaches at Florida State University in the Creative Writing Program and Film School. She lives with her husband and their three children.

Against a backdrop of family stories, Julianna Baggott draws themes as sharp as razors. She is an accomplished poet of the eye and ear, of the definitive feminine experience, and her poems of private life are expansive enough to suggest a vision of a political and historical era. - Rodney Jones, author of Elegy for the Southern Drawl ""Julianna Baggott has a fierce imagination which probes the ordinary details of a woman's life and lights up both the sacred and profane."" - Linda Pastan, author of Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998