Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of eleven books of poetry including Desesperanto: Poems 1999–2002 (Norton, 2003). She has also translated the poetry of Venus Khoury-Ghata and most recently of Claire Malroux in Birds and Bison (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005). Her numerous awards include a National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She lives in New York City and Paris and is professor of English at the City College of New York.