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Kimiko Hahn

A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Kimiko Hahn has published more than ten collections on subjects ranging from Asian American identity and zuihitsu to rarified fields of science. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, and, most recently, the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She teaches in the MFA program for Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

Kimiko Hahn

A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Kimiko Hahn has published more than ten collections on subjects ranging from Asian American identity and zuihitsu to rarified fields of science. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, and, most recently, the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She teaches in the MFA program for Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

Books by Kimiko Hahn

  • The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Hardback, 2006

    An expansive new work from a poet of "rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability" (Mark Doty).
  • Mosquito and Ant: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2000

    This breakthrough volume by award-winning poet Kimiko Hahn is her most rigorously "female" work to date as she reclaims the female body and reinvents an ancient Chinese correspondence.
  • The Artist's Daughter: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2004

    "Kimiko Hahn stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion."—Bloomsbury Review
  • The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2008

    An expansive work inspired by Japanese prose-poetry from a poet of “rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability” (Mark Doty).
  • Toxic Flora: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Hardback, 2010

    “Kimiko Hahn stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion.”—Bloomsbury Review
  • Toxic Flora: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2011

    “[Kimiko] Hahn’s frankness . . . allows [these poems] to stand out as starkly fresh as the carnivorous plants she describes.”—American Poet
  • Brain Fever: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2017

    Rooted in traditional Japanese aesthetics and meditations on contemporary neuroscience, a stunning new volume from an essential American poet.
  • Foreign Bodies: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Hardback, 2020

    A striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)."
  • Toxic Flora: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    E Book, 2013

    “[Kimiko] Hahn’s frankness . . . allows [these poems] to stand out as starkly fresh as the carnivorous plants she describes.”—American Poet
  • Brain Fever: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    E Book, 2014

    Rooted in traditional Japanese aesthetics and meditations on contemporary neuroscience, a stunning new volume from an essential American poet.