Jane Hilberry

Poet

Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado US
Email: 
jhilberry@coloradocollege.edu

Author's Bio

I serve as Professor of Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College, and for many years I taught executives as a Visiting Faculty Member in The Banff Centre's Leadership Development program. I am deeply interested in creative process, and I love facilitiating others to connect with their creative energies and gifts. I offer day, weekend, and week-long workshops on Creativity.

Writers Retreats: 
Indiana University Writers’ Conference
Ragdale

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Western Wind (McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2005)
Books:
Still the Animals Enter (Red Hen Press, 2016)
,
Body Painting, poems (Red Hen Press, 2005)
,
The Erotic Art of Edgar Britton (Ocean View Books, 2001)
Chapbook:
This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter (Mayapple Press, 2009)
Journals:
Columbia Poetry Review
,
Denver Quarterly
,
Michigan Quarterly Review
,
Sun Magazine
,
Tar River Poetry Review
,
The Hudson Review
,
Virginia Quarterly Review
,
Women's Review of Books
Prizes won: 

Colorado Book Award; Cantor Prize for Poetry; Colorado Council for the Arts Recognition Award for Poetry;  Colorado Council on the Humanities Research Grant; Fleck Fellowship, Leighton Colonies at The Banff Centre.  

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Yeats, Roethke, Lucille Clifton, Ada Limon, Ross Gay....
What I'm reading now: 
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay, The Carrying by Ada Limon, How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Any, LGBTQ, Teachers, Women
Born in: 
IN
Indiana
Raised in: 
Kalamazoo, MI
Michigan
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Last update: Apr 25, 2023