Kusnetz received her MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in Feminist and Postcolonial British Fiction from the University of Edinburgh. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Rattle, Crazyhorse, Stone Canoe and Poetry Review; her book reviews and interviews have appeared in The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The New Statesman, and The Florida Review. She is the author of a chapbook, The Gravity of Falling.