Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman (born 1951 in Tucson, Arizona), is an American poet. She was educated at Pomona College, and received her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. She also taught during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

She is married to the poet Robert Hass.

Awards

 * 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry
 * 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry
 * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 * 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
 * Pushcart Prize

Works

 * Northern Californian Women, Caffine destiny, Spring 2008]
 * Doppler Effect in Diagram Three, Carol Peters, January 13, 2009]
 * Split Tractate, Richie, Berkeley, 2001.11.7]
 * Walking the Dunes, The Poetry Foundation, Poetry (May 1977)]

Books

 * , 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Poetry category
 * , a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award
 * , a finalist for Pulitzer Prize
 * White Dress (Wesleyan University Press, 1985)
 * , a finalist for Pulitzer Prize
 * White Dress (Wesleyan University Press, 1985)
 * White Dress (Wesleyan University Press, 1985)
 * White Dress (Wesleyan University Press, 1985)

Chapbooks

 * The Firecage (Penumbra Press, 2000)
 * Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995)
 * Coffee, 3 A.M. (a+bend press, 1982)