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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 Artist's Daughter: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    E Book, 2013

    "Kimiko Hahn stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion."—Bloomsbury Review
  • Mosquito and Ant: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    E Book, 2013

    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 Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    E Book, 2013

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

    Kimiko Hahn

    E Book, 2020

    A striking, shapeshifting volume from “one of the most fascinating female poets of our time” (BOMB)
  • Foreign Bodies: Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2022

    A striking, shapeshifting volume from “one of the most fascinating female poets of our time” (BOMB)
  • The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems

    Kimiko Hahn

    Paperback, 2026

    “Borrowing from [such writers as] Elizabeth Bishop and Chimako Tada, featuring ghosts and geoglyphs, writing in form and free verse, Kimiko Hahn’s broad and eclectic approach reveals a mind as vast...