Hecht's first poetry book, The Next Ancient World won the Poetry Society of America's 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her most recent poetry book, Funny, won the University of Wisconsin's 2005 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and Publisher's Weekly called it “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.”
Hecht earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science and European Cultural History from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches at New York University and The New School University. Her book reviews appear in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband John, and their two children.
Hecht will also deliver three lectures in Tucson for the Astrobiology and the Sacred Series.
Poetry Reading with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Saturday, March 8 at 1 p.m. at the Poetry Center
Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Doubt: A History (HarperCollins, 2003) demonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt from the origins of written history to the present day, all over the world. The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Her newest book, The Happiness Myth was released by HarperCollins in 2007.
