Jane Hirshfield
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About
American poet and California Book Award recipient whose literary works include Given Sugar, Given Salt; Pebbles & Assays; Come, Thief; Of Gravity & Angels, and After. She received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
Before Fame
She was one of the first women to graduate from Princeton University. She published her debut poetry collection, Alaya, in 1982.
Trivia
She became a Buddhist and was awarded a lay person's ordination by the San Francisco Zen Center.
Family Life
She dedicated some of her poetry volumes to Carl Pabo, her partner.
Associated With
She and Maryland-born poet Kim Addonizio both received Guggenheim Fellowships for their literary work.
