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Born: July 23, 1956 Birthplace: Glendale, California, U.S. Occupation: Poet, professor, author, artist, musician Almae Matres: California State University, Fullerton (BA in English); California State University, Long Beach (MA in Literature and MFA in Creative Writing Poetry) Literary movement: Modernism, Imagism Notable works: Spouse: Laura Hier (m. )

Grant Stanley Hier (/hˈa͡ɪə/) is an American writer, artist, and educator who served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Anaheim, California, from 2018-2020. His long poem, Untended Garden—Histories and Reinhabitation in Suburbia, was awarded Prize Americana in 2014 and subsequently published by The Poetry Press/Press Americana in 2015. In addition to several books of original poetry and fiction, his writing is widely published in literary journals and anthologies, taught in classrooms, and is the winner of multiple prizes. Hier has found wide success in several poetic forms: free verse, prose poetry, fixed-form poetry, erasure poetry, experimental poetry, and several forms of his own invention. His published work also spans the genres of literary fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, history, and environmental essays. Other writing includes teleplays, screenplays, drama, short stories, novels, journalistic pieces, interviews, reviews, and ad copy. His album liner notes (for the bands Los Lobos and WAR), as well as his record production (for JOYRIDE: Friends Take the Wheel), have been entered for multiple Grammy Awards. Hier is also a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist musician, having recorded his original music at various studios, including A&M Records in Los Angeles. As a voice actor, he played the part of Stanley Hohner for the audiobook version of George Saunders', Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (Penguin/Random House), which won a 2017 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. He has also voiced projects by David Greenberger (writer, artist, spoken word performer, and creator of Duplex Planet), and he is the co-host of two podcasts, both of which explore creativity and the brain. His work in the visual arts includes graphic design, photography, paintings, drawings, exhibitions of installation art. He has also directed music and spoken word videos. Hier has collaborated on numerous creative projects with other notable artists, including Louie Frausto Pérez, Jr. (artist, writer, musician, songwriter for Los Lobos), Peggy Ann Jones (Photographer), Peggy Hesketh (author of Telling the Bees), and John Brantingham (Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks). As a full professor at Laguna College of Art and Design, he currently teaches writing and literature.

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Early life Hier has mentioned in interviews that creativity was rampant on both sides of his family. His paternal grandfather, George Richard Hier (1897-1978) was originally a mechanic and inventor, owning several garages throughout Downtown Los Angeles, each of which featured his invention of the automotive grease rack (“Hier’s Original Grease Rack”). George started as an extra in early motion pictures, eventually working his way up to become the Chief Lighting Director for Paramount Studios for more than four decades, having lighted hundreds of classic Hollywood films. His paternal grandmother, Hilda Elizabeth Kessler Hier (1900-1983) was a singer, homemaker, and creator of original stories, who often sang with her sister Clara as the “Harmony singers,“ performing on stage at various cafes and venues around downtown Los Angeles, including the popular Elks Club at the top of Angel’s Flight at 3rd and Olive Street, Los Angeles. . George’s Sister, Blanche Wiest Hier, was an exceptional singer of high-class ballads, according to reviews, and often appeared on the same bill as Hilda and Clara. Hier’s maternal grandparents were Ralph August Gaertner (1902-1970) who played the cello, and Josephine “Joe” Elizabeth Glowczewski Gaertner (1911-1960). Ralph’s father, Lou Gaertner, was a singer who used to record at Vermont Studios at , and for whom Eddie Cantor once opened. Hier’s father, Stanley Norbert Hier (1929-2020), was an accomplished pianist who composed songs, stories, poems, and paintings. His mother, Gloria Jean Gaertner (1931-), designed women’s clothing, sketched, painted, and currently creates original craftwork from re-purposed materials. All of this, according to Hier, contributed greatly to his creative spirit, as well as his lifelong love of both the sciences and the arts.

Grant Stanley Hier was born at Glendale Community Hospital in Glendale, California, on July 23, 1956, with a bruised ear and broken collarbone, perhaps the result of a difficult delivery, being 10 pounds 3 ounces. His family moved to the west side of Anaheim when he was not quite one year old. His father worked as an electrician in the television and movie studios, then later had a lengthy career as an executive at Chrysler Corporation, including through the Lee Iacocca years, inventing multiple accounting systems still in use today. His mother Gloria is widowed and living in Buena Park, California. His one sibling, Suzan Elizabeth Hier Lennon (1954-), an appellate attorney, was greatly responsible for teaching Hier to read before the age of 3 years of age (and for his writing in longhand left-handed, as he copied her left-handedness). Grant and Suzan spent many weekends of their youth staying at the remote high desert foothill homestead of his paternal grandparents in the western Mojave Desert, something he cites as contributing to his deep love of wilderness, nature, history, botany, and astronomy, all of which would find their way into his writings. Hier currently lives with his wife, Laura Lee Hier, in the same home his parents purchased as newlyweds, and in which he was raised until 13 years of age. That home and garden turned out to be central symbols in his long poem, Untended Garden. Laura Hier is a member of the Tongva, and a lifelong educator, currently teaching AP Chemistry at John A. Rowland High School in Rowland Heights, California.



Education and Academics Hier was awarded a Journalism Scholarship out of High School. Under his stint as Editor-in-Chief, his high school student newspaper (The Accolade, at Sunny Hills High in Fullerton, California) was named winner of the Crombie Allen Award, earning the highest possible marks of distinction in all categories judged—a first for any high school newspaper at the time, and also earning top honors for any student newspaper, including those at the college level. Not able to get into any journalism classes as a freshman at California State University, Fullerton, however, (due to the popularity of All the President’s Men and a record number of journalism and communications majors), Hier started taking classes in Literature instead, He soon switched to an English major and graduated from CSUF in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature. Hier spent the following 15 years working at various jobs in the arts.

In the early 1990s, when he heard the California State University at Long Beach was soon to launch an MFA degree in Creative Writing, and applied and was accepted into the Master’s program in Creative Writing…. Hier had various career stints as a journalist, editor, designer, and art director. He taught writing at U.C. Irvine for a decade before becoming full professor at Laguna College of Art and Design.

Early career Hier’s early employment includes stints as a carpenter’s apprentice, lifeguard, swim instructor, retail salesclerk (record stores and a bookstore), bartender, copywriter for radio and TV ads, and art director (for a custom photo lab, a graphic design house, and an arts magazine). As a freelance designer and production artist he worked on projects for larger houses, such as Animaniacs and Batman cartoons, and did design work for corporations like Warner Brothers, Paramount Studios, Disney, McDonalds—but did not fit well with the corporate mentality. He began finding more and more work as a freelance writer then, publishing pieces in the LA Weekly and LA Reader, including interviews with Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno, and penning the “Best of L.A.” story, “Best Places to Shoot Pool in Los Angeles.”

He then was hired as Press Officer for several of the American Film Institute’s International Film Festivals and tribute events honoring individual directors and actors. Thereafter, he was hired by Orange County’s very first alternative weekly magazine, Orange County Review, to pen a story for their debut issues, then was brought onto the masthead as Art Director, then later Managing Editor, and stepped in as Editor-in-Chief for one issue as the publication was sold, after which he resigned. While there he interviewed Danny Elfman, REM, Helen Mirren, Ray Bradbury, and others, and actively moved the editorial content toward muckraking and investigative pieces with a political bent, which became the forerunner to the L.A. Weekly’s move into Orange County once the Orange County Review had folded, shortly after he and the entire editorial department resigned en masse.

Music Hier recorded his original music at the historic A&M Studios, first built by Charlie Chaplin, then made into a world-class recording studio complex and soundstage by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss (A&M Records), now the home of Jim Henson Studios. Hier was part of an Artist & Repertoire (A&R) development deal to bring his band into the studio for four full days, with an engineer/producer provided, then was offered an additional three recording days. Seven songs were produced, four of which Hier had co-written, with Hier playing piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and adding hand claps. Years later, as part of a different band, he played a gig at the infamous Doll Hut in Anaheim, also performing his original music and singing.

Hier attended the Grammys in 1979 as a guest, and forty years later was entered for a Grammy Award as Best Producer for the double CD titled: JOYRIDE: Friends Take the Wheel One year later he sang background vocals on the Los Lobos track “Feliz Navidad” off their 2019 LP Llegó Navidad, for which Hier also write the liner notes. He was entered for a Grammy Award for “Best Liner Notes” for that same album.

The following year, he penned the liner notes to WAR: The Vinyl—1971-1975, a 5-LP WAR box set Later, he wrote the liner notes for the Los Lobos album, Native Sons, also entered for a Grammy Award for “Best Liner Notes.” Dialogued one-on-one on art and the creative process at various times with Sir Ken Robinson, Aaron Copeland, Arvo Pärt, Gary Snyder, and Poet Laureates Rita Dove, Mark Strand, and Robert Pinsky.

Over the years he has work-shopped his poetry with such notable poets as Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder, Robert Hass, Camille Dungy, and Evie Shockley.

Other Creative Work In addition to writing, Grant is a musical artist, visual artist, former graphic designer, and art director. In 2018 he wrote and produced the double-CD JOYRIDE: Friends Take the Wheel, a companion to the book Good Morning, Aztlán: The Words, Pictures & Songs of Louie Pérez (Tia Chucha / Northwestern University Press, 2018). That recording of spoken word and music featured fifty artists and was entered for a 2019 Grammy Award ("Best Folk Album—Grant Hier, Producer"). In 2019 Grant recorded his own original musical compositions at A&M Studios in Los Angeles for A&M Records. His installation art has been featured in several gallery showings across Southern California. As a voice actor, he contributed the part of Stanley Hohner for the audiobook version of the New York Times bestseller, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (Penguin/Random House, 2017), by George Saunders. That recording won the 2018 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.

Marriage Grant married Laura (this place and this date)

Humanitarian Work As a volunteer, Hier proposed, created, and taught the first Poetry Writing Workshop at the Braille Institute in Anaheim.

He and his wife Laura have volunteered to teach science labs to the children of refugees in classes conducted at Access California Services.

Hier also partnered with AccessCal founder and Executive Director, Nahla Kayali and the Refugee Forum of Orange County to stage a series of live events throughout June, which included a series of free writing workshops specifically for refugees, to provide an opportunity and a microphone for each refugee to articulate their unique stories in their own words to the community, focusing on an item they carried with them when they fled their homeland. Hier enlisted the help of poet Dania Ayah Alkhouli to both co-teach the writing sessions and act as translator for those who spoke little or no English. Many of the writings were in the refugees’ native languages, as well as in English. After the series of workshops, Hier invited those refugees to read their writings in a special World Refugee Day event that he had initiated at the Anaheim Central Library, co-sponsored by the Poet Laureate of Anaheim, Anaheim Central Library, Refugee Forum of Orange County, and PEN America West—organized by Rida Hamida, and managed by Joe Purtell and emceed by Sara Alshehabi and Bao Nguyen. The event filled the basement of the Central Library to SRO, and featured Hier’s workshop participants, who were each given the mic to read what they had written as “Refugee Storytellers.” Throughout the evening there were refugee chefs showcasing culinary arts and dishes from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia; a screening of the Elias Matar film "From The Front Line"; dignitary remarks and proclamations from numerous local leaders; plus the honoring of refugees with awards and certificates, ending with the granting of special “Courage Awards” by the Refugee Forum of Orange County—one of which Hier received, along with five related Certificates of Recognition from the County of Orange, California State Assembly, California State Senate, United States House of Representatives, and the United States Congress. One of the refugees from Hier’s workshops who read her story was contacted the following day by a BBC reporter who was in the room, and he interviewed her for BBC Radio specifically asking her about her story from the workshop, describing how she left her grandmother to come to America to flee the violence in her homeland of El Sahe Muzeo, Hier was lvador. In addition to this World Refugee Day event, assisted by Carol Latham and talso was able to stage a special author reading and interview in the historic Carnegie Building with Ming Lauren Holden, to talk about her work with refugees and her book Refuge (winner of the inaugural Kore Press Memoir Award). For that event, Hier was granted permission from photographer Jim Lommasson to display the entirety of his powerful series “What We Carried — Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization.” When Hier was Poet Laureate of Anaheim, Hier he created several other Refugee-related programs and community-sponsored events throughout Anaheim and on social media. For Refugee Awareness Month, he posted thirty daily images during Refugee Awareness Month in 2019. some from the poster <#WeAreAllRefugees> produced by the Refugee Forum of Orange County, and the color images are from photographer Jim Lommasson’s series titled “What We Carried — Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization,” which documents items that Syrian and Iraqi refugees carried with them as they fled their home , augmented by that refugee’s hand-written comments about the story and meaning of that item in the photograph.

He has visited numerous classrooms, from K-12 to college-level, as well as community centers, museums, and not-for-profit social service organizations, volunteering his time to read and teach poetry to the community.

Other Trivia Hier has officiated seven weddings. He has bowled a 267, 269 and 276 games (just two pins from perfection in one of those). Read as the featured poet at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Marched shoulder-to-shoulder talking politics and peace with Cesar Chavez, then decades later won a service award along with his grandson. Stood on the Dalai Lama’s private balcony at the top of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. Traveled by jeep with two Jesuit priests through the back country of Tibet, visiting monasteries, meditating with monks, on the way to Mount Everest. (As Ann Beatty wrote: “One night, giving me a lesson in storytelling, you said, ‘Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.’)

Hier has always said, “If you really want to know me, it’s all there in my art.” His passion for words can be traced back to when he started reading by the time he was three, according to his parents. Sometime later (!) he earned a BA in Literature, an MA in English, and an MFA in Creative Writing. In 2018 he was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Anaheim and served for two years. He has three books of poetry out, and three more books forthcoming in the next five years. he also co-wrote a book of Historical Flash Fiction with the Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. He has written novels, screenplays, teleplays, and essays, but his first love has always been poetry. He feels extremely fortunate to have been named recipient of Prize Americana for his book-length poem Untended Garden (The Poetry Press, 2015), which was also nominated for both an American Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. he was awarded the Nancy Dew Taylor Prize for Literary Excellence in Poetry (2014) and the KICK PRIZE for poetry (2013). Several of his pieces have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His writing has been anthologized in the books Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Heyday, 2017), Only Light Can Do That (Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA, 2016), LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press, 2016), and Monster Verse — Human and Inhuman Poems (Knopf/Everyman, 2015). His fiction, reviews, and essays have been widely published as well, including in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Jeffers Studies, and Explorations in English Studies — as well as in the books Teaching Composition with Literature and John Fante: A Critical Gathering. In his 20s and 30s he served as editor, managing editor, and editor-in-chief of several literary journals and magazines.

Though writing is his first love, He has been known to push paint and has had solo shows of his installation art. He composes and records his own compositions in his home recording studio (what a blast). As a voice actor he contributed the part of Stanley Hohner for the audiobook version of George Saunders', Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (Penguin/Random House, 2017), which won an Audie Award for Best Audiobook of the Year. He co-hosts two separate podcasts, each currently in production. As an educator, he taught at SCI-Arc, OCC, Chapman University and CSULB before teaching writing at UCI (for a decade), then became Full Professor (and served for many years as Chair of Liberal Arts and Art History, and Faculty Senate President) at Laguna College of Art & Design. Of teaching, Hier says, "Teaching can be creative as well. It might even be aptly called an art form, I don’t know. What I do know is that teaching the highly creative students at LCAD is by far my favorite and most rewarding joy ever."

Publications Forthcoming PRACTICE: 394 Poems in 365 Days, a poetry collection and teaching text, is forthcoming from Pelekinesis.

California Continuum, Volume Two — Immigrations, co-edited with John Brantingham (Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon Parks) will include the works of dozens of invited authors, and is forthcoming from Pelekinesis in 2022. It is a companion anthology to California Continuum, Volume One — Migrations and Amalgamations, the book of historical flash fiction co-written by Hier and Brantingham, with a foreword by D. J. Waldie.

Published Two original poetry collections were released in 2018 on Pelekinesis: The Difference Between and Similitude. Untended Garden — Histories and Reinhabitation in Suburbia is a book-length poem published in 2015 (The Poetry Press)

Individual poems have been published in such literary journals as Zócalo Public Square, Interlitq: The International Literary Quarterly, Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, TAB: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Dallas Review, Anastamos, Poetry/LA, Poetry Digest, Chiron Review, Poets Against the War, Review Americana, WTC Remembrances, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Pearl, Blue Fifth Review Quarterly, Orange County Review, Orange Coast Review, Emrys Journal, RipRap, Re)verb, Verse-Virtual, Slipstream, City Dialogues, Tandava, Faith, Stymie, Word Riot, and others.

Grant's poetry has also been anthologized in such books as Without a Doubt—poems illuminating faith (a New York Quarterly Anthology, 2021), Floored (Kingly Street Press, 2021), Making Up—Poems of Beauty, Reconciliation, & Invention (Picture Show Press, 2020), Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Heyday, 2017), Only Light Can Do That (Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA, 2016), and Monster Verse — Human and Inhuman Poems (Knopf/Everyman, 2015).

Three of his fiction pieces were included in LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press, 2016). A flash fiction piece from the 2018 UK Flash Fiction Festival was included in the anthology Flash Fiction Journal — Two.

Grant's essays and reviews have been widely published, including in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Jeffers Studies, and Explorations in English Studies — as well as in the books Teaching Composition with Literature and John Fante: A Critical Gathering.

Since the 1990s Grant has served as editor, managing editor, and editor-in-chief of several literary journals and magazines. He is currently poetry editor for Chiron Review.

Grant penned the liner notes to the Los Lobos album, Llegó Navidad (Rhino / Warner Music Group). That writing was entered for a 2020 Grammy Award ("Best Album Notes—Grant Hier, Writer"). The band then extended the invitation to write the liner notes for their latest release from New West Records, titled Native Sons.

Grant also penned the liner notes for a new WAR 5-LP color vinyl box set (limited to 5,000 pressings) from Rhino Records/Warner Music Group, titled WAR: The Vinyl: 1971-1975.

Published works Poetry » Lirae — 394 Poems in 365 Days  |  Pelekinesis, Forthcoming in 2022 » Similitude  |  Pelekinesis, 2018 » The Difference Between  |  Pelekinesis, 2018 » Untended Garden — Histories and Reinhabitation in Suburbia  |  The Poetry Press, 2014

Flash Fiction » California Continuum, Volume Two— Immigrations  |  co-written with John Brantingham  |  Pelekinesis, Forthcoming in 2022 » California Continuum,, Volume One — Migrations and Amalgamations  |  co-written with John Brantingham  |  Pelekinesis, 2019

Anthologies » Without a Doubt — poems illuminating faith  |  A New York Quarterly Anthology  |  2021  |  "Rapture" » Floored   |  Kingly Street Press 2021  |  "Self-Similar" » Making Up—Poems of Beauty, Reconciliation, & Invention  |  Picture Show Press  2020  |  "Because the sky was soft and slow" » Flash Fiction Festival — Two  |  Ad Hoc Fiction  2018  |  "The Current Threaded"

» Orange County: A Literary Field Guide  |  Heyday 2017  |  "Untended Garden" excerpt » Only Light Can Do That: 100 Post-Election Poems, Stories & Essays  |  Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA, 2016  |  "Shame and Shock (Villanelle on The Etymology of an Election)" » LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers  |  Red Hen Press, 2016  |  "The Snack Bar"  ||  "Duffle Bag of Balls"  ||  "Bat Rack" » Monster Verse — Human and Inhuman Poems  |  Knopf/Everyman, 2015  |  "The Surgeon Turns the Scalpel on Himself" » Poets Against the War  |  2003  | "The Difference Between Repair and Reconstruction" » WTC Remembrances  |  September, 2002  |  "The Difference Between Repair and Reconstruction" » John Fante — A Critical Gathering  |  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999  |  "Written Like Mad Sonnets: The Poetics of John Fante's Prose"

Scholarly Articles » Explorations in English Studies  |  April, 1997  |   "Human Struggle Amidst Angelic Voices: Teaching the Creative Writing of Poetry"  |  Juried » Jeffers Studies  |  Summer/Fall, 1995  |  "Truth, Myth, and 'The Great Wound'"  |  Juried » Jeffers Studies  |  Fall, 1994  |  "The Dance of Shiva and Concepts of Hinduism in Robinson Jeffers's Poetry"  |   Juried » Jeffers Studies  |  Summer, 1994  |  "Robinson Jeffers and Thuban"  |  Juried Other Publications » Teaching Composition with Literature  |  Addison Wesley Longman, 1999  |  "Connecting Images in Sylvia Plath's 'Metaphors.' — Stressing process over formula"  |  Invited   ||  "Beyond Binary Thinking: 'My Papa's  Waltz' by Theodore Roethke"  |  Invited » The Review of Contemporary Fiction  |  Spring, 1998  |  Book  Review of The Troika, by Stephan Chapman  |  Invited

Audio Book » Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel  by George Saunders  |  Penguin/Random House  |  Character of Stanley Hohner voiced by Grant Hier  |  2018 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year

LP / CD''' » Native Sons by Los Lobos  |  Liner Notes  |  2021  |  Text for LP album inner sleeve; CD book and Softpak panels » WAR: The Vinyl: 1971-1975 by WAR  |  Liner Notes  |  2021  |  Text for exclusive 5-LP color vinyl box set and CD package, strictly limited to 5,000 copies worldwide. » Llegó Navidad by Los Lobos  |  Liner Notes  |  2019  |  Text for LP album jacket back cover & 4-panel, 2-sided inner sleeve; and CD 20-page book and Softpak panels  |  Entered for a 2020 Grammy Award for Best Liner Notes » Joyride — Friends Take the Wheel   |  2018  |  Written and Produced by Grant Hier  |  A companion to the book Good Morning, Aztlán: The Words, Pictures & Songs of Louie Pérez  (Tia Chucha / Northwestern University Press, 2018) Double CD featuring music and spoken word performed by 50 artists. Readers include: George Saunders, Ser Anzoategui, Luís Alberto Urrea, Rose Portillo, Diane Rodriguez, Grant Hier, Luis J. Rodriguez, David Greenberger, Eileen Galindo, Guy Vickers, Ginger McBride, Mary Pérez, Luis Torres, Laura Andrade Padilla Dent, as well as Herbert Sigüenza, Ric Salinas and Richard Montoya of the performance troupe Culture Clash. Contributing musicians include: David Hidalgo, John Doe, Rick Trevino, Mitchell Froom, Vonda Shepard, Josh Baca, Max Baca, Althea Grace, Wesley Stace, Doyle Bramhall II, LPIII, Ruby Rosas, Edward David Anderson, Jackie Greene, Syd Straw, Hahn Rowe (Somatic), Donald Edgar Piper, Michel Delory, John McCauley, and the bands Quetzal, Cambalache, and Making Movies |  Entered for a 2019 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album

Critical Reception Hier’s poetry is most often compared to Walt Whitman and Galway Kinnell, both of whom he has credited in interviews as major influences, along with Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louis MacNeice, Carl Sandberg, Robert Frost, e.e. cummings, Robinson Jeffers, Mary Oliver, Pattiann Rogers, Kay Ryan, and Robert Wrigley. His creative body of work stresses egalitarianism, most often reflecting the basic principles aligned with nondualism and humanism. While writing Untended Garden, Hier consulted with both Kinnell and Gary Snyder for advice on working in the long form, hand as worked one-on-one with Kinnell on many other occasions. He has also workshopped with Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder, Charles Harper Webb, Camille Dungy, Evie Shockley, and others. Charles Harper Webb has said of his work: "Grant Hier's Untended Garden is a poem that should be chanted by firelight at the entrance to a cave. It is a well-wrought psychic quest for a life rooted in the contemporary while still in ancient sympathy with the earth. Read this book, then join me in saying, 'Bravo!'" Rogers: Poet Gerald Locklin has said :

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