Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight collections of poems, including Come, Thief; After, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Given Salt, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and, most recently, The Beauty, a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Hirshfield is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. While never a full-time academic, she has taught at UC Berkeley, Bennington, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.