Boruch has written twelve books of poetry, including Bestiary Dark, The Anti-Grief, Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing, and Cadaver, Speak. Her collection The Book of Hours received the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award in 2013. She’s published a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler, and four essay collections. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Narrative, American Poetry Review, The London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

Boruch’s accomplishments don’t stop at publications. Along with a national Indiana Authors Award in 2015, she has received Pushcart Prizes; fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, MacDowell, and Yaddo; as well as stints as artist-in-residence at two National Parks: Isle Royale and Denali. In May, she was awarded the 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize.

In 2012, Boruch was a Fulbright/visiting professor in the U.K. at the University of Edinburgh; and in 2019, a senior research Fulbright scholar at the University of Canberra in Australia. In 1987, Boruch established the MFA Program at Purdue University, directing it for many years before “going rogue” and emeritus in 2018. She has a forthcoming Fulbright in Norway at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion. She currently lives with her husband in West Lafayette, where they raised their son.