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The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program |
| | Lyn Hejinian reading - A recording of the February 21, 2005 event where Hejinian read from her work:
See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event. For images from this event, please click here.
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Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator; she was born in the San
Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Published collections of her
writing include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life,
Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad (written in
collaboration with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten),
The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, and A Border Comedy;
the University of California Press published a collection of her essays
entitled The Language of Inquiry. She has travelled and lectured
extensively in Russia as well as Europe, and Description and Xenia,
two volumes of her translations from the work of the contemporary Russian
poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, have been published by Sun and Moon Press.
From 1976 to 1984, Hejinian was the editor of Tuumba Press and from 1981
to 1999 she was the co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of Poetics Journal.
She is also the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary
project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets; Atelos was
nominated as one of the best independent literary presses by the
Firecracker Awards in 2001. Other collaborative projects include a work
entitled The Eye of Enduring undertaken with the painter Diane
Andrews Hall and exhibited in 1996, a composition entitled Quê Trân
with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian, a mixed media book
entitled The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill created with the
painter Emilie Clark (Granary Press, 1998), and the experimental film
Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs, for which Hejinian
and
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko wrote the script. In the fall of 2000, she was
elected the sixty-sixth Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She
teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.