Poet Brenda Hillman is the author of Pieces of Air in Epic, Cascadia, Loose Sugar, Bright Existence, Death Tractates, Fortress, and White Dress.  Her poems have also been collected in three chapbooks:  The Firecage, Autumn Sojourn, and Coffee, 3 A.M.  She is co-editor of The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood.  Current holder of the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California, she has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America.