Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield (born 1953) is an award-winning American poet.
She was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center.[1]
Hirshfield has worked as a freelance writer and translator. She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and as the Elliston Visiting Poet at the University of Cincinnati. She is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Master of Fine Arts Writing Seminars.[1]
Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, and multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.[2]
Honors and awards
- The Poetry Center Book Award
- Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation
- Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation,
- Fellowship, Academy of American Poets
- Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
- Columbia University's Translation Center Award
- Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal
- Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
- Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement from The Academy of American Poets (2004)
- Finalist, T. S. Eliot Prize
External links
- [1] Jane Hirshfield Web pages at the Steven Barclay Agency Web site
- [2] Feature article on Hirshfield at Poetry Foundation Web site
- [3] Interview with Hirshfield at Poetry Daily Web site
- [4] Interview with Hirshfield at KQED radio station Web site
- [5] Review by Steven Ratiner of After in The Washington Post Sunday, August 6, 2006
- ^ a b [6]Jane Hirshfield biography page at the Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed January 15, 2007
- ^ [7]Jane Hirshfield biography page at HarperCollins Web site, accessed January 15, 2006