Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of fourteen books of poems, including Blazons ( Carcanet, 2019), and A Stranger’s Mirror ( Norton, 2015), two collaborative books, a A Different Distance, written with Karthika Naïr (Milkweed Editions ,2021) and Diaspo/Renga, written with Deema K. Shehabi (Holland Park Press, 2014) and an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices ( Michigan, 2010). Her eighteen translations of French and Francophone poets . include Jean-Paul de Dadelsen’s That Light, All at Once, (Yale, 2020), Samira Negrouche’s The Olive Trees’ Jazz (Pleaides Press, 2020) and Claire Malroux’s Daybreak (NY Review Books 2020). She received the 2010 American PEN Voelcker Award and the international Argana Prize for Poetry from the Beit as-Sh’ir/ House of Poetry in Morocco in 2011. She lives in Paris, and misses Beirut.