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American poet

Kimiko Hahn (born July 5, 1955) is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY.^[1] Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities.^[2]

Biography

Hahn was born in Mount Kisco, New York, on July 5, 1955.

Her parents are both artists. Her mother, Maude Miyako Hamai, was a Japanese American from Maui, Hawaii; her father, Walter Hahn, was a German American from Wisconsin.^[3] They met in Chicago, where Walter was a friend of the notable African American author Ralph Ellison.^[4] Her sister is Tomie Hahn, a performer and ethnologist.^[5]

Hahn grew up in Pleasantville, New York,^[6] and between 1964 and 1965, the Hahns later lived in Tokyo, Japan.^[7] As a teen, she became involved in the New York City Asian American movement of the 1970s.

Zhou Xiaojing has commented that her racially