Brenda Hillman

BRENDA HILLMAN is the author of over ten poetry collections, including Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, Practical Water, and Pieces of Air in the Epic. Born in Arizona, Hillman is a graduate of both Pomona College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and more. Her 1993 collection Bright Existence was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.