Kimiko Hahn is the author of five collections of poetry: Mosquito and Ant (N.W. Norton), Volatile (Hanging Loose), The Unbearable Heart (Kaya) which was awarded an American Book Award, Earshot (Hanging Loose) which received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award, and Air Pocket (Hanging Loose) which received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asain American Studies Literature Award, and Air Pocket (Hanging Loose). In 1995 she wrote ten portraits of women and did the coice overs for the MTV special, ?Aint Nuthin? but a She Thang.? She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wallace Reader?s Digest Fund. The mother of two daughters, a professor in the English Department at Queens College/CUNY, Hahn is working on a new collection of poetry, The Artist?s Daughter. Achy Obejas is the award-winning author of Days of Awe, which will be published by Ballantine Books in August of 2001 and from which she will read at the Guild Complex. She is also the author of Memory Mambo, a novel, and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?, a collection of short stories, both appeared in Vouge, Ms, Playboy, Village Voice, Latina, The Nation, Girlfriend, Windy City Times, New City, Chicago Reporter, Hispanic, and many others. She?s written for the Chicago Tribune since 1991.
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