Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry's deep workings, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past. Her honours include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award. In the UK, her collection After, a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2016. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. She lives in northern California.