Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)

Marilyn is a poet, translator and critic. Born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrant parents, she met the future science-fiction writer Samuel R. Delany at school and, although he is gay, they married and had a daughter. Divorced in 1980, they remain friends and Marilyn identifies as a lesbian. Her poetry and translation has won numerous awards, including the 2001 Audre Lorde Award, and in 2013 she was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame. She divides her time between New York and Paris.

Mythology is here.

Norah Hanson (born 1937)

Norah was born in Hull, Yorkshire, and has been a proud resident ever since. She spent her working life teaching in secondary schools, then turned to writing after her retirement in 1996. Widowed in 1994, she is nonetheless not short of company – she has six children, seventeen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, featured on BBC Radio 4, and published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Love Letters & Children’s Drawings (2011), Under a Holderness Sky (2013) and Sparks (2016).

She Showed Me Her Dreams is here.

Caroline Hardaker (born 1986)

Caroline’s poetry has been published worldwide in magazines and anthologies. Her debut collection, Bone Ovation, was published in 2017 and she also writes literary fiction, non-fiction and journalism. Caroline works as a content manager for Newcastle University and is currently working with the Royal Northern College of Music to produce a cycle of operatic art songs.

The Girl Who Fell in Love With the Mountain is here.

Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith

Lauren was a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.

I want to stand naked in the school hall is here.

Yü Hsüan-chi (c. 843–868)

We have around fifty poems by this remarkable woman. She was working as a prostitute in Ch’ang An (now Xi’an in Shaanxi Province) until she met Li Yi, to whom many of her poems are addressed. She became his concubine until he abandoned her, upon which she embarked upon a religious life as a Taoist nun. She lived in poverty as the unlikely combination of courtesan, nun and poet until she was executed – on what it is thought were trumped-up charges – for killing her maid. Staying in the Mountains in Summer is here.

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)

Helen grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was a lifelong friend of fellow resident Emily Dickinson. She lost her first husband and two young sons and suffered with tuberculosis herself, meeting her second husband while seeking a rest cure in California. Helen took his name, Jackson, in her later writing career although she originally published anonymously under ‘H H’. She became an author, poet and activist for the rights of Native Americans, campaigning vigorously on their behalf and publishing both a history and a successful novel (Ramona, 1884) that demonstrated their appalling treatment at the hands of the American government. Emigravit is here.