Susan Hahn



Susan Hahn is a poet, playwright, and the editor of TriQuaterly magazine.

Hahn is the author of eight books of poetry and the recipient of many awards, including a 2003 Gugenheim Fellowship. The Chicago Tribune named her fourth book, Holiday, and her fifth book, Mother in Summer, among the Best Books of 2002. Her sixth book, Self/Pity, was published in 2005 by Northwestern University Press. Her first play, Golf, premiered in 2005, and The Scarlet Ibis, her seventh book of poetry, was performed as a verse play in 2007 and 2008. Her eighth book of poetry, The Note She Left was published in 2008.

Publications

 * Harriet Rubin’s Mother’s Wooden Hand. 1991.
 * Incontinence. 1993.
 * Confession. 1997.
 * Holiday. 2001.
 * Mother in Summer. 2002.
 * Self/Pity. Northwestern University Press, 2005.
 * The Scarlet Ibis. 2007.
 * The Note She Left. 2008.

Plays

 * Golf. 2005.
 * The Scarlet Ibis. 2007.

Non-fiction

 * “Authenticity and Impersonality in Adorno's Aesthetics”. Telos 117 (Summer 1999). New York: Telos Press.

Susan Hahn