Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American poet and translator. She is the author of ten collections of poetry: ''White Dress'', ''Fortress'', ''Death Tractates'', ''Bright Existence'', ''Loose Sugar'', ''Cascadia'', ''Pieces of Air in the Epic'', ''Practical Water'', for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, ''Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire'', which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry, and ''Extra Hidden Life, among the Days'', which was awarded the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of Creative Writing, she holds the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at Saint Mary's College of California, in Moraga, California. Hillman is also involved in non-violent activism as a member of the Code Pink Working Group in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2016, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Since 2021 she has directed the poetry program at the Community of Writers summer workshops in Olympic Valley.

Biography

She was educated at Pomona College, and received her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. She also taught during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Hillman met the writer Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) in Iowa City in 1975, they were married in Berkeley in 1976, which ended in divorce in the late 1980s. They had a daughter together. Currently, she is married to the poet Robert Hass for ''Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire''
* 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry
* 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry
* National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
* 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
* Pushcart Prize

Bibliography

Books

* , finalist for the Four Quartets Prize
* Winner of 2019 Northern California Book Award
* , shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize
* , 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Poetry category
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* , a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award
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* ''White Dress.'' Wesleyan University Press. 1985.

Chapbooks

* ''The Firecage'' (a+bend press, 2000)
* ''Autumn Sojourn'' (Em Press, 1995)
* ''Coffee, 3 A.M.'' (Penumbra Press, 1982)

Edited

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*Brenda Hillman, ed. (1995). ''The Pocket Emily Dickinson''. Shambhala Publications.

Translations

* Diallah Haidar, Brenda Hillman, trans. ''Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi.''
* Brenda Hillman, co-trans. (2010). Jeongrye Choi. ''Instances''. Parlor Press.

In Anthology

* Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, eds. (2018). ''Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California''. Scarlet Tanager Books.
* Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). ''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology''. University of Georgia Press.

References

External links

Brenda Hillman, poets.org





Interview: Brenda Hillman, writersatcornell, November 7, 2008


* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070708123834/http://www.denverquarterly.com/upload/images/McCabe.pdf “'Platonic Oxygen': On Brenda Hillman’s ''Pieces of Air in the Epic''", Brenda McCabe, Denver Quarterly]

An interview with Brenda Hillman in ''Memorious''

2003 interview
with '' Rain Taxi''

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