Kimiko Hahn is the winner of the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her work is noted for its intertextuality and wide-ranging subject matter.

She the author of ten books of poems, including Foreign Bodies; Brain Fever; Toxic Flora (the previous two collections prompted by science); The Narrow Road to the Interior; The Unbearable Heart, which received an American Book Award; and Earshot, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association for Asian American Studies book award.

Hahn has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, Shelley Memorial Award, 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 has taught in graduate programs at the University of Houston and New York University, and she is a distinguished professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College. She has also taught for literary organizations such as the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, and Kundiman. From 2016 to 2019, Hahn was president of the Board of Governors for the Poetry Society of America.

selected bibliography

The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems (2024)

Foreign Bodies (2020)

The Artist’s Daughter (2004)

Air Pocket (1988)

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online resources

Kimiko Hahn’s page with Blue Flower Arts

Video: Kimiko Hahn at the International Poetry Forum