Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry, including “Ledger,” “The Beauty,” “Come, Thief,” and “Given Sugar, Given Salt.” She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays, “Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry,” and “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World.” She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. A resident of Northern California, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.