Robert Hahn is an award-winning poet, translator and author of nonfiction. He has recently completed a memoir, Burying Mary Baker Eddy, The True Stories of a Dying Father, a Wayward Son, and a Sickly Messiah. With Michela Martini, he has completed the first English-language translation of the poetry of Edoardo Sanguineti, The Naked Acrobat, Gradiva Publications. Five collections of his poetry have been published, All Clear (South Carolina) and No Messages (Notre Dame–winner of the Sandeen Award). His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Harper's Magazine, Notre Dame Review, Chicago Review, Ontario Review, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Agni, and The New Republic. His essays on Tintoretto and sixteenth-century Venice have appeared in Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, Raritan, and The Yale Review. His essays on translation, poetry, fiction, painting, and film have appeared in Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Film Quarterly, and Boston Review. His non-fiction appearances are an essay on the late work of J. M. Coetzee in The Kenyon Review and a memoir (What Occurred in Linz) in The American Scholar. His memoir Becoming Unknown is in The Southern Humanities Review. His translations of Italian poetry (Giorgio Caproni, Edoardo Sanguineti, Gabriella Leto, and others), also in collaboration with Michela Martini, have appeared in The Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, International Poetry Review, Gradiva, Poetry International, The Journal of Italian Translation, Literary Imagination, Italian Poetry Review, and The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Ernest Sandeen Award (Notre Dame University), the Chelsea Magazine Award, The Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize (Keats-Shelley Society, England), Southwest Review's Best Essay award, a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, and fellowships at Bogliasco (Italy) and MacDowell.
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