Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot (1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (1996), which received an..
Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot (1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (1996), which received an American Book Award; The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006) which takes its title from Basho’s famous poetic journal; and Toxic Flora, poems inspired by science (W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2010). Hahn has also written text for film, such as the 1995 two-hour MTV special, Ain't Nuthin' But a She-Thing (for which she also recorded the voice-overs); also, the text for Everywhere at Once, Holly Fisher’s film based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau. Among her editorial projects is Issue 122 of The Tri-Quarterly Review, in which she focused on writers who use outside sources. Hahn is a recipient of the PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a distinguished professor in the English Department at Queens College, The City University of New York.
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