In childhood kimiko hahn

Kimiko Hahn was born on July 5, 1955, in Mount Kisco, New York, the child of artists—a Japanese American mother from Hawai‘i and a German American father from Wisconsin. Hahn received an undergraduate degree in English and East Asian studies from the University of Iowa. She earned a master’s degree in Japanese literature from Columbia University.

Hahn is the author of ten collections of poetry, including The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2024); Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020); and The Unbearable Heart (Kaya Production, 1995), which received an American Book Award. Hahn’s work often explores desire and death, and the intersections of conflicting identities. She frequently draws on, and even reinvents, classic forms and techniques such as the zuihitsu, as popularized by The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon. In recent years, she has explored forms that give a nod to past writers, such as the glosa and the golden shovel.

About her own wor Kimiko hahn.