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Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona. She has published several chapbooks and is the author of 12 full-length collections, the most recent of which are In A Few Minutes Before Later; Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, which received the Griffin International Poetry Prize; and Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, winner of the Northern California Book Award. In 2024, she published her first book of prose essays, Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality. Learn more >


The final volume in the poet’s extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fire. Fire— its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms—is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman’s masterful series on the elements. More about this book >
Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona. She has published several chapbooks and is the author of 12 full-length collections, the most recent of which are In A Few Minutes Before Later; Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, which received the Griffin International Poetry Prize; and Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, winner of the Northern California Book Award. In 2024, she published her first book of prose essays, Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality.
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