Born in Michigan City, Indiana, and raised in Edwardsburg and Niles, Michigan, Diane Seuss studied at Kalamazoo College and earned a master's degree in social work from Western Michigan University. Her collection frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021) won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award. Four-Legged Girl (Graywolf, 2015) was a Pulitzer finalist, and Modern Poetry (Graywolf, 2024) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and received the John Updike Award in 2021.
