Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, including The Living Fire (2011). Gabriel: A Poem (2014) a book-length elegy for his son that won the National Jewish Book Award, and Stranger by Night (2020). He has also published eight books of prose, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national bestseller, 100 Poems to Break Your Heart (2021), and The Heart of American Poetry (2022).

Amongst other awards, he has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pablo Neruda Medal of Honor. His newest book is a memoir, My Childhood in Pieces (June, 2025). Since 2003, he has served as president of the Guggenheim Foundation.