Agneta Falk Hirschman

Agneta Falk Hirschman: was born in 1946 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a poet, visual artist, editor, and translator. In her twenties she moved to England, and in 1998 she moved to San Francisco. Her first book of poetry, Here by Choice, was published by Trigram Press, London in 1980. For the book, she received a writer’s bursary from Yorkshire Arts. From 1992–1999, she was the co–director of Word Hoard, promoting writing in the community and organizing poetry events. For seven years, she ran a women’s writing group and worked with people in recovery and the mentally handicapped.