The Dream Department

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her most recent published books of poetry are Saga/Circus (Omnidawn, 2008) and A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001). The University of California Press published a collection of her essays titled The Language of Inquiry in 2000. She is also actively involved in collaboratively composed works, the most recent examples of which include a major collection of poems with Jack Collom titled Situations, Sings (Adventures in Poetry, 2008). Other collaborative projects include a work titled The Eye of Enduring undertaken with the painter Diane Andrews Hall and exhibited in 1996; a composition titled Qúê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian; two mixed media books (The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill and The Lake) created with the painter Emilie Clark; the award-winning experimental documentary film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs; and The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, co-written with nine other poets. She is a recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley.