Born to a Japanese mother and an American father, Hana Widerman is a poet and essayist originally from California. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Creative Writing and won the James Richardson Award in Poetry. She is currently an MFA student at Cornell University, where she was the 2024 recipient of the George Harmon Coxe Poetry Prize and a poetry editor of EPOCH. Her poetry has been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and appears or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Offing, The Shore, and on The Poetry Society website. She currently teaches a first-year writing class in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.