Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of poems, most recently Calligraphies; two collaborative books, A Different Distance with Karthika Naïr and DiaspoRenga with Deema K. Shehabi; one essay collection, Unauthorized Voices; and twenty-two collections of translations from the French, including Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen, Samira Negrouche's The Olive Trees' Jazz, and Claire Malroux's Daybreak. Over the course of her fifty-year career, she has received numerous honors, including the National Book Award for Presentation Piece, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the PEN/Voelcker Award, the Argana International Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a former editor of The Kenyon Review and the French literary journal Siècle 21, and she served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She lives between Paris and New York.