Works
Crow Mind (Finishing Line Press, 2020)
This book chronicles a daily backyard meeting between a poet and her crow visitors. The poems are full of careful observation, and they bring the corvid-human similarities and differences into high relief.
Crossings
This beautiful chapbook (Oyez, 1980, handbound and printed in letterpress by Don Gray) is Hiller's first book of poems.
Charlie’s Exit
(EdgeWork Books, 2002, ISBN 1-223-01-7)
This is a coming-of-age novel. It chronicles the heroine's journey into and out of a difficult marriage and it follows her journey into other lands and discoveries, botrh actual and internal. In the journey, she discovers puzzles and secrets and works out a new understanding of what home is. Woven into the novel is a diary account by a pioneer ancestor, who follows her own pathway to knowleddge of a wider world. Both Charlie and her forebear discover how we are all nomads on our own journeys of change, and how the territory, both beautiful and harsh, leads them into new landscapes of knowledge.
Aqueduct
This book (Clear Mt. Press, 1993) is a long poem, a meditation on water, love and the continual, diverse motions of life. Joanna Axtmann's striking black and white drawings, inspired by the piece, accompany the poems. It's a love poem to water and its ways.
Certain Weathers
"...delicate strength as it weaves and cross-ticks, delicate beauty."
RICHARD SILBERG (editor of
"Poetry Flash").
This collection presents a spectrum of Hiller's work, containing love poems, lyrics, meditations, and a few long poems.
Recreating Partnership: A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy
This is an eminently readable and very practical book for the use of therapists working with couples, that most challenging of therapeutic undertakings. It contains clear exposition of theoretical assumptions and technical practices, along with clear and helpful case examples. These examples are accompanied by the kinds of running commentary that make learning and applying new assumptions and techniques manageable.
The book has been translated into German under the title Verliebt, verlobt und dann . . . ?
Scott D. Miller, PhD., Co-Founder, Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, Chicago, says: “Recreating Partnership provides therapists with a wealth of practical suggestions for helping couples. The authors certainly practice what they preach. They have created a highly readable and timely volume that builds bridges between the various constructionist approaches and will be of benefit to clinicians and couples alike.”
Michael Hoyt, Ph.D., author of Some Stories are Better than Others and Interviews with Brief Therapy Experts, says: “Ziegler and Hiller have provided us with a great resource for helping couples recreate the kind of stories that produce happy and vibrant relationships... Recreating Partnership is valuable and well written, a book that should be on the shelf of everyone who works with couples.”