Marilyn Hacker is the author of twenty-one books of poems and twenty-two collections of poetry in translation from the French. Over the course of her fifty-year career, she has received numerous honors, including the National Book Award, 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 has served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, editor of The Kenyon Review, and editor of the French literary journal Siècle 21. She lives between Paris and New York.