Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009) Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006)and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her twelve volumes of translations from the French include Rachida Madani's Tales of a Severed Head (Yale University Press, 2012) Emmanuel Moses' He and I (Oberlin College Press, 2009), Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). She lives in New York and Paris. She is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets' Prize, the National Book Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the PEN Voelcker Award in Poetry in 2010, and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She received the Argana International Poetry Award from the House of Poetry/ Beit as-Sh'ir in Morocco in 2012.