Jane Hirshfield
Award-winning American poet, climate activist
and dharma teacher from San Francisco Zen Center, Soto Zen 

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator, Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry, including The Asking: New and Selected Poems (2023); Ledger (2020); The Beauty (2015), longlisted for the National Book Award; Come, Thief (2011), a finalist for the PEN USA Poetry Award; and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. In recent decades, Hirshfield has become increasingly known as a poet working at the intersection of poetry, the sciences, and the crisis of the biosphere. She is a lay dharma teacher from San Francisco Zen Center in the Soto Zen tradition.