• Receipient of several awards for literary respect and acknowledgement. A free thinking gender- bending- individualistic ex-patriate , who has published several poetry books and critical analysis(treatise) over the years. These have included:                
• Desesperanto: Poem 1999-2002
• Winter Numbers: 1994 Winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award
• Going Back to the River: 1990- Lambda Literary Award 
• Love, Death and the Changing Seasons-1986 
• Assumptions: 1985 
• First Cities: Collected Early Poems: 1960-1979 
• Lamont Poetry Selection- Academy of American Poets and National Book Award Winner- Presentation Piece                                   

In one of her most recent work Squares and Courtyards:Amazon.com. {Her most recent work as of this writing is Desesperanto also out on Amazon .com}

The accidental observer on lifes' many thresholds? The player amongst and within ones own frame works clinically observing what? Air, ocean, water, fire, earth, thoughts........? What each person is inherantly given? Marilyn Hacker observes more than just her 50 years + in the literary community, world, aura e persona.

Marilyn Hacker is most known for her true ease in writing. She finds joy and mastery in the sometimes difficult and unpredictable rhythmic sequentia found in the poetic forms of the: pantoum and sestina. While others wilt away from the new emerging experimentations in completed combinations of true and pure forms, and constantly struggle with the placement and fluidity of the rhythmic scheme, She allows her works a visual and oral commonality which references the sounds, sight and emotions of  everday existences.