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Grant Hier was the first Poet Laureate of Anaheim, California from 2018-2020. Honors include Prize Americana, the Kick Prize, and the Courage Award. Books include Untended Garden, The Difference Between, and Similitude. A new book of poetry and instruction titled Practice: 394 Poems in 365 Days, is forthcoming. California Continuum Vol. One is a book of historical flash fiction he co-wrote with John Brantingham, the Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. He has been published in literary journals internationally, most recently in the current issue of So It Goes—The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. His poetry is anthologized in such books as Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Heyday), Only Light Can Do That (Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA), Monster Verse — Human and Inhuman Poems (Knopf/Everyman), Anthology of Poetry (Picture Show Press), and the Poems Illuminating Faith Anthology (New York Quarterly). His fiction appears in LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press) and Flash Fiction Journal — Two. His essays and reviews have been widely published as well, including in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Jeffers Studies, Explorations in English Studies, Teaching Composition with Literature, and the book John Fante: A Critical Gathering. Grant has been entered for three Grammy Awards: as a writer for “Best Album Notes” (for the last two Los Lobos albums, Llegó Navidad and Native Sons) and as a Producer for “Best Folk Album” (for Joyride: Friends Take the Wheel). He recently wrote the liner notes to a forthcoming, special edition 5-LP box set (WAR—The Vinyl: 1971-1975.) As a voice actor he contributed to the audio book of George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2018 Audie Award for Audiobook of the year. Grant is a Full Professor at LCAD, and poetry editor for Chiron Review. More at www.granthier.com
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