A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, founder of Poets For Science, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Jane  Hirshfield is the author of nine much-honored collections of poetry, including most recently Ledger (Knopf, 2020), a book centered on the crisis of the biosphere, as well as three collections of essays and four books presenting world poets of the deep past. Described in The New York Times as “writing some of the most important poetry in the world today” and in The Washington Post as “among the modern masters,” Hirshfield has held visiting professor positions at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and Queens University, Belfast. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The TLS, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry, and has been translated into over fifteen languages.