Rachel Hadas is the author of twenty books of poetry, essays, and translations, most recently the prose collection Talking to the Dead. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the O. B. Hardison Poetry Prize, among other honors, Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University–Newark. She lives in New York City with her husband, artist Shalom Gorewitz, with whom she has been working on marrying poetry and video.