Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, UW

In Ten Senses:
Some Sentences About Art’s Senses and Intents

“Wonderful fluency and happy skepticism, the world beautifully seen and sung, the word relished and suspected. Lots of impulse and energy, sprezzatura, bravura.”
—Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet, on the work of Heather McHugh

Heather McHugh is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. Her books of poetry include Eyeshot (2003) and The Father of the Predicaments (1999). Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993 (1994) won both the Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize, was a Finalist for the National Book Award, and was named a “Notable Book of the Year” by the New York Times Book Review. McHugh is also the author of a volume of literary essays, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality (1993), and several books of poetry in translation including Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (2000). Her honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Voelcker Poetry Award from PEN, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

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