Body Painting

Biographical Note

Biographical Note Jane Hilberry’s first poetry teacher was her father, poet Conrad Hilberry, who sensed her interest in writing when she was a teenager.They spent many evenings at the kitchen table, exchanging work or discussing poems he was to teach the next day. Hilberry graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College, worked in the Publications Department of the Denver Art Museum, and continued her education at Indiana University, where she received an M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance literature. She was one of the first editors of The Indiana Review. Hilberry now teaches literature and CreativeWriting at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where, for the past sixteen years, she has developed methods to cultivate students’ creativity. She has recently published and taught workshops in the United States and Canada on the subject of Creativity and Leadership. Interested in visual art as well as poetry, she has published a book of art criticism/ biography titled The Erotic Art of Edgar Britton (Ocean View Books, 2001). She has also published two chapbooks of poems. Her honors include the Colorado Council on theArts RecognitionAward for Poetry and a Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Research Award. This page intentionally left blank. ...