Brenda Hillman is the newest member of the American Academy of Poets’ Board of Chancellors. This is an honorary position that has been held by some of the most distinguished poets in the United States, including W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, and Mark Strand.

Learn more at the website of the Academy of American Poets.

Learn more about Brenda Hillman and her poetry at Wesleyan’s online readers companion.

Hillman is an activist, writer, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press, including Pieces of Air in the Epic, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (2006); Practical Water, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009); and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, winner of the Griffin Trust’s International Poetry Prize (2014). Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, as the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry. She was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets in 2016.