Susan Hahn | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | November 11, 1951
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Nationality | American |
Education | Highland Park High School Northwestern University (BA, MA) |
Susan Hahn (born November 11, 1951) is a bestselling[1] Illinois poet, playwright and novelist. She is also a Guggenheim fellow.[1]
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[2] She began working at the Woodlawn Mental Health Center after graduation and became licensed as a group therapist.[2] 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.[2]
In 1997 she started editing TriQuarterly literary magazine.[3][4] She remained with TriQuarterly until 2010, when the magazine went to an online-only format.[5] She is also a co-editor of works published by Northwestern University.[4]
Hahn was the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's first writer-in-residence in 2013.[6]
Hahn's writing has been described by Donna Seaman as displaying "bewitching" language and "sly" humor.[7] As the featured Illinois poet, her work was described by the State of Illinois as "voyages into the uncharted seas of self and other."[8]
Her novel, The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter, was favorably reviewed by Booklist and Library Journal.[1][9]
In 1994, Hahn received a Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry.[2]
The Chicago Tribune listed Holiday and Mother in Summer in the ranks of the Best Books of 2002.[10]
Susan Hahn's honors and awards include: