PUBLICATIONS:

Poetry Collections:

• 2006, AFTER, HarperCollins (US), Bloodaxe Books (UK)
• 2005, EACH HAPPINESS RINGED BY LIONS: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, UK)
• 2002, UWAZNOSC, selected poems, tr. by Magda Heydel (Znak, POLAND)
• 2001, GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT, HarperCollins
• 1997, THE LIVES OF THE HEART, HarperCollins
• 1994, THE OCTOBER PALACE, HarperCollins
• 1988, OF GRAVITY & ANGELS, Wesleyan University Press
• 1982, ALAYA, The Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series

Essays:

• 1997, NINE GATES: ENTERING THE MIND OF POETRY, HarperCollins

Translations:

• 1988 and 1990, THE INK DARK MOON: POEMS BY ONO NO KOMACHI AND IZUMI SHIKIBU (translated and edited by Jane Hirshfield, with Mariko Aratani), Scribners, 1988 (o.p.); expanded edition Vintage Classics, Random House, 1990
• 2004, MIRABAI: ECSTATIC POEMS (English versions by Jane Hirshfield and Robert Bly), Beacon Press

Anthology Edited:

• 1994, WOMEN IN PRAISE OF THE SACRED: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, HarperCollins
   

JOURNAL/ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATIONS:
(Partial Listing)

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Nation, The Washington Post Book World, The American Scholar, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Antaeus, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Orion, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Sierra, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review;  The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, et. al.

Honors and Prizes:

• Finalist (2006), T.S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom)
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2005
• Academy of American Poets Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement, 2004
• Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, 1985
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio Study Center, 1995
• Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in Poetry, 2001
  (for Given Sugar, Given Salt)
• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2001
  (for Given Sugar, Given Salt)
• The Poetry Center Book Award, 1995
  (for The October Palace)
• Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in Poetry, 1995
  (for The October Palace)
• Commonwealth Club of California 1994 Poetry Medal (CA Book Award)
  (for The October Palace)
• Commonwealth Club of California 1988 Poetry Medal  (CA Book Award)
  (for Of Gravity & Angels)
• Columbia University Translation Center Award, 1987
  (for The Ink Dark Moon)
• Dewar's Young Artists Recognition Award in Poetry, 1990
• The Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Prize, 1982
  (for Alaya)
• The Joseph Henry Jackson Award (The San Francisco Foundation), 1986
• Best American Poetry, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007
• Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2002, special mention
• Pushcart Prize, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2006 (Best of Pushcart 30 Years volume)
• Marin Arts Council Creative Achievement Grant, 1990
• Djerassi Foundation Artist‑in‑Residence, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990
• Yaddo Corporation, Fellowships, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2002
• MacDowell Colony, Fellowship, 1994, 2008
• Poetry Society of America, Cecil Hemley Award, 1988
• Poetry Society of America, Gordon Barber Award, 1987
• Japan U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Literary Translation, 1988
  Honorable Mention, (for The Ink Dark Moon)
• Paterson Poetry Prize, 1988
  Honorable Mention (for Of Gravity & Angels)
• Poetry Competition Winner, The Nation, 1973
  (later became the Discovery Award)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

University/College Teaching Positions:

• Bennington College M.F.A. Writing Seminars, Faculty, 1995; 1999-2001, 2004
• University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Associate Professor, 1995
• Northern Michigan University, Visiting Professor, 1994
• University of San Francisco, M.A.W. Program, Lecturer, 1991-1998

Selected Chairs/Residencies Held:

• Duke University, Blackburn Visiting Poet in Residence, 2008
• University of Alabama, Coal Royalty Visiting Chair in Creative Writing, 2001
• University of Cincinnati, George Elliston Visiting Poet (endowed chair), 2000
• Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, The Hurst Residency (endowed residency), 2000
• The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, Poet-in-Residence, Mentor Program 1998
• University of Mississippi, John Grisham Invited Writer, 1997
• University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Visiting Poet-in-Residence, 1993