Credit: Beowulf Sheehan

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poetry, including, most recently, Brain Fever (Norton, 2014). She has received numerous honors, including the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a distinguished professor in creative writing at Queens College, The City University of New York, and lives in Forest Hills, New York.