Claim: Jane Hirshfield was the Hellman Visiting Artist in 2013, taught at many writers conferences and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. .
Evidence: She was the Hellman Visiting Artist in 2013 in the Neuroscience Department at University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University's 2016 Mohr Visiting Professor in Poetry. She has also taught at many writers conferences, including Bread Loaf and the Napa Valley Writers Conference and has served as both core and associate faculty in the Bennington Master of Fine Arts Writing Seminars. In 2019, Hirshfield was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.