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.