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Brenda Hillman is the author of ten collections of poetry, from Wesleyan University Press, most recently Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days (2018). In a Few Minutes Before Later is forthcoming in 2022. Named by Poets and Writers as one of fifty inspiring writers in the world, Hillman has worked as a writer, teacher, editor and activist. Her work has received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for innovation in poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With her mother, Helen Hillman, she co-translated Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar’s At Your Feet. Hillman has served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets; she is a mother and grandmother, and lives with her husband Robert Hass in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College of California.
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