Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman (born 1951 in Tucson, Arizona), is an American poet.^[1] 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.^[2] She also taught during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.^[3]

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.^[4][5] Currently, she is married to the poet Robert Hass.

Awards

• 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry^[6]
• 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship^[7]
• Pushcart Prize

Works

• Northern Californian Women, Caffine destiny, Spring 2008
• Doppler Effect in Diagram Three, Carol Peters, January 13, 2009
• Split Tractate, Richie, Berkeley, 2001.11.7
• Walking the Dunes, The Poetry Foundation, Poetry (May 1977)
• Charles Wright, David Lehman, ed. (2008). "Phone Booth". The Best American poetry. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9974-9. 

Books

• Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Wesleyan University Press. 2013.
• Practical Water. Wesleyan University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8195-6931-8. , 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Poetry category
• Pieces of Air in the Epic. Wesleyan University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8195-6787-1. 
• Cascadia. Wesleyan University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8195-6492-4. 
• Loose Sugar. Wesleyan University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8195-2243-6. , a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award
• Bright Existence. Wesleyan University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8195-1207-9. , a finalist for Pulitzer Prize
• Death Tractates. Wesleyan University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8195-1202-4. 
• Fortress. Wesleyan University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8195-1168-3. 
• White Dress. Wesleyan University Press. 1985.

Chapbooks

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

Edited

• Patricia Dienstfrey, Brenda Hillman, ed. (2003). The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood. ISBN 978-0-8195-6644-7. 
• Brenda Hillman, Paul Ebenkamp, ed. (2010). Writing the Silences, New California Poetry. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26244-7. 

References

External links

• Brenda Hillman, poets.org
• Brenda Hillman, blueflowerarts
• Brenda Hillman, Poetry Foundation
• Interview: Brenda Hillman, writersatcornell, November 7, 2008
• Readings in contemporary Poetry: Brenda Hillman, Brighde Mullins, Dia Art Foundation
• “Platonic Oxygen”: On Brenda Hillman’s Pieces of Air in the Epic, Brenda McCabe, Denver Quarterly
• - An interview with Brenda Hillman in 'Memorious' magazine