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Described by The Poetry Foundation as “one of contemporary poetry’s most eclectic and formally innovative writers,” Brenda Hillman’s work includes a four-volume series concerned with pop culture, the landscape of California, and the ethics of collective identity, as well as the classical life elements of air, water, earth, and fire. The fourth book in the series, Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire (2013), was a long-list finalist for the National Book Award. She was educated at Pomona College, and received her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. She has won the 2014 International Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.