Jane Hirshfield, among American poetry’s foremost spokespersons for the biosphere, is the author of ten much-honored books of poetry, most recently The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2023). Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Scientific American, and elsewhere. In 2017, she founded the travelling, online, and interactive installation Poets for Science <www.poetsforscience.org>, in conjunction with that year’s March for Science in Washington, D.C., which has since then been installed at the National Academy of Sciences, the Broad Institute, the Natural History Institute, the AGU annual meeting, and universities around the country. Her 2024 Blaney Annual Lecture, “Making the Invisible Visible: Some Thoughts on Poetry & Science” can be found here: https://poets.org/text/blaney-making-invisible-visible. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and spring 2026 Visiting Fellow of the Harvard Divinity School, Hirshfield was elected in 2019 into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.