Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh is Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. She regularly teaches at the low residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Eyeshot, The Father of the Predicaments, and Shades. Eyeshot was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and her selected poems, Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993 was a Nationalist Book Award Finalist. The translation Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, a collaboration with her husband Nikolai Popov, won the Griffin International Prize. In 1993, Wesleyan published her literary essays, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality. McHugh's other books include a translation of Euripedes' Cyclops and of poems by Jean Follain, under the title D'Après Tout: Poems of Jean Follain. In 1999, she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.