Kimiko Hahn

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Klapper Hall, English Dept. Queens College, CUNY

Flushing, NY 11367

Email:

kimiko.hahn@qc.cuny.edu

Phone:

718-997-4712

Bio:

Kimiko Hahn, author of ten collections, renders her themes in varying forms and finds her material from disparate sources—whether black lung disease (Volatile) or classical Japanese texts (The Narrow Road to the Interior). Rarified fields of science triggered her work in Toxic Flora and continue in Brain Fever. Hahn is an advocate of the chapbook and her latest is The Cryptic Chamber. She loves the challenge of collaboration: writing text for film (1995 MTV special, Ain't Nuthin' But a She-Thing and Everywhere at Once, a film based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau), artwork (Lauren Henkin’s photographic series); dance pieces with Tomie Hahn; translation of Japanese zuihitsu. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Raised in:

NY

Prizes won:

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, The Shelley Memorial Award/Poetry Society of America, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, American Book Award, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, Poetry, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry

Identifies as:

Asian American

Prefers to work with:

Any