Background

Lyn Hejinian was born on May 17, 1941 in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley, California.

Career

Lyn has published over a dozen books of poetry and numerous books of essays as well as two volumes of translations of the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. From 1976 to 1984 she was editor of Tuumba Press, and from 1981 to 1999 she co-edited (with Barrett Watten) Poetics Journal. She is the co-editor of Atelos, which publishes cross-genre collaborations between poets and other artists.

Hejinian has worked on a number of collaborative projects with painters, musicians and filmmakers. She teaches poetics and contemporary literature at University of California, Berkeley. Hejinian has lectured in Russia and around Europe. Currently, she sponsors the NBC Thursday Night DeCal course at UC Berkeley.

Achievements

• Lyn is known for her landmark work My Life, as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry.

Works

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  • My Life and My Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 2013
  • The Language of Inquiry 2000
  • The Unfollowing 2016
  • My Life (Green Integer Books, 39) 2002
  • The Book of a Thousand Eyes 2012
  • Happily 2000
  • The Fatalist 2003
  • Saga / Circus 2008
  • Sight 1999
  • The Wide Road 2011
  • Slowly 2002

Connections

Lyn married composer/musician Larry Ochs, and they have one child.

husband:

Larry Ochs