Tobey Hiller

Selected Works

Novel
Charlie’s Exit
“This is a novel that will long stay in the reader’s mind, a vivid and arresting experience.”
--(Bob Williams of The Compulsive Reader)
Aqueduct
This stunning book of connected poems in various forms has spare, evocative drawings by Joanna Axtmann.
Poetry
Certain Weathers
In this book of poetry, and in Crossings, and Aqueduct, her two other poetry collections, Hiller shows her arresting skill and range with language. David Meltzer says about her poems: “A clear impassioned intent underlies the work as a whole... [The poems] insist their music against the ongoing emptying-out of language our era contends with daily.”
Psychology
Recreating Partnership: A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy
“The authors of this beautifully written book give invaluable insights into what couples need to turn their relationship around during therapy... This is one of the clearest and most creative books I have ever read on couples therapy!”
--(Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, author of Love Between Equals).

Biography



Tobey Hiller has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her first novel, CHARLIE'S EXIT, (EdgeWork Books) appeared in 2002. About this book, a reviewer said "Hiller manages [her] conclusion by a skill that is admirable in a first novel. She shows in fact generous abundance in CHARLIE'S EXIT, lively imagination and subtle finesse." Another reviewer said "[t]he parallel stories fascinated me. . . It's a literary gem." A second novel is on the way. Hiller's short fiction and poems have appeared in many journals, anthologies and magazines.

Her story "The Seventh Blue" was a finalist for the 2009 Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award and can be read or heard on-line at Able.Muse.com.

Her Afterword for the Signet Classic Edition of THE CALL OF THE WILD & SELECTED STORIES by Jack London appeared in 2009.

She has published three books of poetry, CROSSINGS, CERTAIN WEATHERS and AQUEDUCT (the last with drawings by Joanna Axtmann). Her poetry is haunting and lyrical. She uses a broad, inventive language, both sensuous and cerebral, that creates an exciting dialogue between the self and that overwhelming, fascinating, inescapable and multiple other inhabiting us all -- the daily world. The Bay Area poet Don Schenker described her poetry as "in a word, world-class." David Meltzer said of her poetry "...here is the lyric of accomplished grace and concern, the poems insist their music against the ongoing emptying-out of language our era contends with daily."

Her poetry has won several magazine competitions, appeared in a number of anthologies and been included in LITERATURE AND ITS WRITERS (Bedford Books, eds. Ann and Samuel Charters), a college text.

She has two books, a novel and a YA fantasy, in progress and is at work on a new collection of poetry.

She has also published a book about couples therapy, co-written with her husband, Phillip Ziegler (W.W. Norton, 2001). This book garnered excellent reviews in the arena of couples counseling and has been translated into German.