Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently, The Beauty (Knopf Doubleday), and two books of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (HarperCollins) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf Doubleday). Hirshfield is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a Contributing Editor of Alaska Quarterly Review.