Biography of Marilyn Hacker, author of Unauthorized Voices:
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently Names (Norton, 2009),
Essays on Departure (Carcanet, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003), and of ten
collections of translations of contemporary French poets, including Emmanuel Moses’ He and I
(Oberlin College Press, 2009); Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Straus and
Giroux, 2008), winner of the 2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and three collections
by the Lebanese French poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata.
She received the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets and a Lambda
Literary award for Winter Numbers, a Lambda Literary Award for Going Back to the River, the
National Book Award for Presentation Piece, and an Award in Literature from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters for the entirety of her work.
She was editor of the feminist literary magazine 13th Moon and, for four years, editor in chief of
the Kenyon Review. Marilyn Hacker lives in New York and Paris. She is a Chancellor of the
Academy of American Poets, and co-editor of the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series.