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Grant Hier previously served as the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Anaheim, California (2018- 2020). His book Untended Garden was awarded Prize Americana and nominated for both an American Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Other poetry books include The Difference Between and Similitude. A new collection, Lirae—394 Poems in 365 Days, is forthcoming. Individual poems have won such awards as the Kick Prize and the Nancy Dew Taylor Prize for poetry, been published in literary journals internationally, and anthologized in such books as Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Heyday), Only Light Can Do That (Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA), Monster Verse—Human and Inhuman Poems (Knopf/Everyman), Making Up—Poems of Beauty, Reconciliation, & Invention (Picture Show Press), and the forthcoming Cold Floors (of Unkindness). The flash fiction book, California Continuum Vol. One, he co-authored with John Brantingham. Individual fiction pieces appear in LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press) and Flash Fiction Journal — Two. His essays and reviews have been widely published as well, including in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Jeffers Studies, Explorations in English Studies, Teaching Composition with Literature, and the book John Fante: A Critical Gathering. Grant recently penned the liner notes to the latest Los Lobos album, Llegó Navidad, and he wrote and produced JOYRIDE: Friends Take the Wheel (entered for a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album). As a voice actor, Grant contributed the part of Stanley Hohner for the audiobook version of Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (Penguin/ Random House) by George Saunders. That recording won the 2018 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. He is currently Full Professor at LCAD and poetry editor for Chiron Review.
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