Rachel Hadas

Poet, essayist, and translator Rachel Hadas is the author of many books, including, most recently, “Ghost Guest” (2023), “Pandemic Almanac” (2022), and “Piece by Piece” and “Love and Dread” (both 2021).  Her newest collection, “Forty-four Pastorals,” is forthcoming, and a prosimetrum entitled “From Which We Start Awake” is in progress.  Hadas has published widely in periodicals, and her poem “Voyage” is included in “The Best American Poetry 2024,” edited by Mary Jo Salter.  Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University -Newark for many years, she has also taught at the West Chester Poetry Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Princeton University, Columbia University, the Unterberg Poetry center at the YMHA in New York City, and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.  She lives in New York City and in Danville, Vermont.