Hershon is the author of over a dozen poetry collections, including End of the Business Day (2019), Calls from the Outside World (2006), The German Lunatic (2000), and Into a Punchline: Poems 1986-1996. His work appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, the World, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares and The Nation, among many others. He was awarded two NEA fellowships and three fellowships from New York State. He served as executive director of the Print Center, Inc. and was a co-founder and co-editor of Hanging Loose Press and Hanging Loose magazine.