Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian: poet, essayist, translator, and publisher she is a founding figure of the Language Poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant– garde poetics. She is the author of many poetry collections, including My Life and My Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn, 2012), and The Fatalist (Omnidawn, 2003). A native Californian, she teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.