Hahn is the author of ten books of poetry including her latest, Foreign Bodies, published by WW Norton this year. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020) and The Unbearable Heart (1995), which received an American Book Award.
Her work often explores desire and death, and the intersections of conflicting identities. She frequently draws on, and even reinvents, classic forms and techniques used by women writers in Japan and China, including the zuihitsu, or pillow book, and nu shu, a nearly extinct script Chinese women used to correspond with one another.
Hahn teaches in the MFA program at Queens College. In 2016, she was elected president of the Poetry Society of America.
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