Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently of The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2023); two collections of essays; and four books collecting and co-translating world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield’s work has been translated into eighteen languages and honored with the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hirshfield is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Contributions to Humans & Nature
- “One Reports Oneself Missing,” a poem in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).
- “Vestment,” a poem in Elementals: Fire, Vol. 4 (Humans & Nature Press, 2024).
