Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine books of poetry, including Toxic Flora (W.W. Norton, 2010) and Brain Fever (W.W. Norton, 2014). She is the winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the American Book Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and also been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hahn teaches in the MFA program at Queens College. In 2016, she was elected president of the Poetry Society of America.