Marilyn Hacker was born in New York City in 1942. She lives in Paris. She is the author of several books including Essays on Departure(Carcanet, 2006) and the following books of poetry, FirstCities: Collected Early Poems 1960-1979 (2003); Squaresand Courtyards (2000); Winter Numbers (1994), which wonthe Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda LiteraryAward; Selected Poems 1965-1990 (1994), which received the Poets' Prize; Love, Death, and the Changing of theSeasons (1986); Assumptions (1985); Taking Notice(1980);Going Back to the River (1990), for which she received a Lambda Literary Award; Separations (1976); and Presentation Piece (1974), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award winner. She also translated Venus Khoury-Ghata's poetry, notably the award-winning Alphabets of Sand (Carcanet, 2009).
