“Hass was born in San Francisco. He received his B.A. from St. Mary’s College in California and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. His first collection of poetry, Field Guide (1973), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His collection of essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures, won the National Book Critics Award in 1985. Hass also has helped poet Czeslaw Milosz translate his works. Hass teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.”

–Library of Congress Poets Laureate page