Anne Pierson Wiese was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived for a decade in South Dakota. Currently, she and her husband, writer Ben Miller, reside in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island—the least-known borough of New York City. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, FLOATING CITY and WHICH WAY WAS NORTH, both published by Louisiana State University Press, and the recipient of awards including a Discovery/THE NATION Poetry Award, the Walt Whitman Award, given by Academy of American Poets, and the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship.