Born to a Japanese mother and an American father, Hana Widerman is a poet and essayist originally from California. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Creative Writing and won the James Richardson Award in Poetry. She is currently a lecturer at Cornell University, where she received her MFA and worked as an assistant poetry editor of EPOCH. A two-time winner of Cornell's George Harmon Coxe Poetry Prize, her poetry has been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and appears or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Washington Square Review, The Journal, The Offing, The Shore, Pleiades, Zócalo Public Square, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been supported by the Saltonstall Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Participant Scholarship in Poetry.