Liane Strauss is the author of the poetry collections The Flaws in the Story (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023) which won the 2023 Marsh Hawk Press Prize, chosen by Mary Jo Bang; Leaving Eden (Salt Publishing, 2010); Frankie, Alfredo, (Donut Press, 2009); and All the Ways You Still Remind Me of the Moon (Paekakariki Press, 2015). She is currently working on poems towards a new collection entitled The Delirium Team, written while her mother was dying. 

Strauss was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Closter, New Jersey. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and her PhD from Brown University in Comparative Literature. Strauss has taught literature and creative writing at The City Literary Institute, Birkbeck College (University of London), The Poetry School, NYUSPS and Rutgers, and has mentored many emerging writers. From 2001-2015, Strauss lived in various postal codes in London, but since 2015 she’s back in New York City.

She writes the Substack How To Read a Poem: A Love Story.