Jane Hirshfield, described as writing “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine) and “among the modern masters” (The Washington Post), is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for concerns of the biosphere. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the founder of Poets For Science in conjunction with the 2017 March for Science, and a current Visiting Fellow of the Harvard Divinity School, Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry, including “The Asking: New & Selected Poems” (Knopf, 2023). Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and Columbia University’s Translation Center Award; been long-listed for the National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s the author as well of two now-classic collections of essays on poetry’s deep infrastructure and craft, “Nine Gates and Ten Windows,” and editor and co-translator of four books presenting the work of world poets from the deep past. Other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, et al. Hirshfield’s work has been translated into over twenty languages and her TED-ED animated lesson on metaphor has had over 1.7 million views. In 2019, she was elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.