Susan Hahn is an American poet, playwright and novelist from Chicago, Illinois. She received a B.A. and M.A. in psychology from Northwestern University. After working as a therapist, she began writing poetry and had poems published in Poetry magazine. She went on to edit TriQuarterly literary magazine from 1997 to 2010. Hahn has published several collections of poems and was named the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's first writer-in-residence in 2013. The biography provides background on Hahn and lists many of her published poems.

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Susan Hahn
Susan Hahn is a bestselling Illinois poet, playwright and novelist. She is also a Guggenheim
fellow.
She was born Susan Firestone in Chicago, Illinois on November 11, 1951, and attended Highland
Park High School. She attended Northwestern University where she received a B.A. and an M.A.
in psychology She began working at the Woodlawn Mental Health Center after graduation and
became licensed as a group therapist. After incorporating writing and art into her therapy, she
began to write her own work and submitted some of her poems to Poetry magazine, where they
were accepted.
In 1997 she started editing TriQuarterly literary magazine. She remained with TriQuarterly until
2010, when the magazine went to an online-only format. She is also a co-editor of works
published by Northwestern University.
Hahn was the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's first writer-in-residence in 2013.
Waiting at the Gate
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Small Green
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Poison
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Pneumonia
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Pity the Skin
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The Pity of Punctuation
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Perennial
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Oral Interpretation
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Melancholia
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May 5
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The Lovers
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Looking out on Africa
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Insomnia
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Incontinence
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Her Purse, at the Winter Solstice
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FRIGID 1996
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FRIGID 1994
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Flowers
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February Day
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