Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, What Happens, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

“It was Hilda Raz’s remarkable book Trans that shifted ways of reading poetry for me. If you want to read a poetry of honesty and often pain ‘in working through things’-then Raz’s poetry is exemplary in this.”-John Kinsella, author of Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks “Whether she writes of Aaron or Sarah, funerals or fields, Raz’s tone remains sincere and open: ‘Nothing to explain, no shield,’ she writes, ‘of paper thin skin between history and the untender world.’”-Publishers Weekly “What subject could be harder for a mother to document than her daughter’s sex-change operation? Some of the strongest poems in this collection by poet and anthologizer Raz focus on that transformation.”-Library Journal

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, What Happens, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

“It was Hilda Raz’s remarkable book Trans that shifted ways of reading poetry for me. If you want to read a poetry of honesty and often pain ‘in working through things’-then Raz’s poetry is exemplary in this.”-John Kinsella, author of Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks “Whether she writes of Aaron or Sarah, funerals or fields, Raz’s tone remains sincere and open: ‘Nothing to explain, no shield,’ she writes, ‘of paper thin skin between history and the untender world.’”-Publishers Weekly “What subject could be harder for a mother to document than her daughter’s sex-change operation? Some of the strongest poems in this collection by poet and anthologizer Raz focus on that transformation.”-Library Journal

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, What Happens, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

“It was Hilda Raz’s remarkable book Trans that shifted ways of reading poetry for me. If you want to read a poetry of honesty and often pain ‘in working through things’-then Raz’s poetry is exemplary in this.”-John Kinsella, author of Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks “Whether she writes of Aaron or Sarah, funerals or fields, Raz’s tone remains sincere and open: ‘Nothing to explain, no shield,’ she writes, ‘of paper thin skin between history and the untender world.’”-Publishers Weekly “What subject could be harder for a mother to document than her daughter’s sex-change operation? Some of the strongest poems in this collection by poet and anthologizer Raz focus on that transformation.”-Library Journal