1. Brenda Hillman 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.
Brenda Hillman is involved in non-violent activism as a member of the Code Pink Working Group in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Brenda Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Brenda Hillman taught during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Brenda Hillman met the writer Leonard Michaels in Iowa City in 1975, they were married in Berkeley in 1976, which ended in divorce in the late 1980s.
One of contemporary poetry's most eclectic and formally innovative writers, Brenda Hillman is known for poems that draw on elements of found texts and document, personal meditation, observation, and literary theory.
Brenda Hillman has published ten collections of poetry, all from Wesleyan University Press: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, and Practical Water, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry.
Brenda Hillman is the author of four chapbooks: Case Study, Coffee, 3 AM, Autumn Sojourn, and The Firecage.
Brenda Hillman has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood.
Brenda Hillman co-translated, with Diallah Haidar, Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi, one of Libya's most significant poets.
Brenda Hillman has been increasingly interested in the innovative and experimental lyric traditions, particularly in how the Romantic concepts of nature and spirit have manifested in contemporary poetry.