Born to a Japanese mother and an American father, Hana Widerman is a poet and educator originally from California. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Creative Writing and received her MFA from Cornell University, where she worked as an assistant editor of EPOCH. Her poetry has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Washington Square Review, Southword, Zócalo Public Square, On Occassion: Poems for the People (Coach House Books), and elsewhere. Her work has been awarded the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the James Richardson Award, and the George Harmon Coxe Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Outpost Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Participant Scholarship in Poetry. She previously worked as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University and is currently a PhD student in English at Brown University.