Jane Hirshfield

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Jane Hirshfield (born 24 February 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

Life and work

Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City on East 20th Street. She obtained her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women as freshmen.

Hirshfield received lay ordination in Soto Zen at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979.

Several accolades have been given to Hirshfield's nine books of poetry. Given Sugar, Given Salt, her fifth book, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and her sixth collection, "T.S." The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Financial Times named Eliot Prize (UK) and a 'best book of 2006' by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Financial Times as a 'best book of 2006.' The Beauty of her eighth collection was long-listed for the National Book Award and dubbed a 'best book of 2015' by The San Francisco Chronicle. Nine Gates: Entering Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World She has written two books of essays, including two books on poetry. Ink Dark Moon, her co-translation of the work of the two leading women poets of classical-era Japan, was instrumental in bringing tanka (a 31-syllable Japanese poetic form) to the attention of American poets. She has edited four books showcasing the writing of poets from the past, and is described as "part of a growing body of scholarship that is trying to recapture women writers' forgotten past." In 1985, she was given a Guggenheim Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Award in American Poetry in 2012.

Hirshfield, although not a full professor, has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, The Bennington Writing Seminars, and the University of Cincinnati's Elliston Visiting Poet. She was the Hellman Visiting Artist in 2013 at the University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University's 2016 Mohr Visiting Professor in Poetry. She has appeared at many writers' conferences, including Bread Loaf and the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and has served as both core and associate faculty in the Bennington Master of Fine Arts Writing Seminars. Hirshfield appears in literary festivals both in America and abroad, including the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the National Book Festival, Poetry International (London, UK), the China Poetry Festival (Xi'an, China), and the Second International Gathering of the Poets [Kraków, Poland]. She has received numerous residencies, including from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Rauschenberg Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Civitella Ranieri, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She serves as a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review and Ploughshares, a former guest editor of The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and an advisory editor at Orion and Tricycle.

Hirshfield served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2012-2017.

Hirshfield was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.

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Honors and awards

• The Poetry Center Book Award
• The California Book Award
• Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation
• Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation,
• Fellowship, Academy of American Poets
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
• Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry
• 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
• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
• Long-list National Book Award
• Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2012–2017)
• elected, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2019)