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Hacker, Marilyn (b. 1942), American poet. Hacker is the author of eight books of poetry including the cult classic, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), a book-length sequence of lesbian love sonnets modelled on Shakespeare’s sonnets. She has won many prizes and honours including a National Book Award for Presentation Piece (1974), Lambda literary awards for Winter Numbers (1994) and Going Back to the River (1990), and the Poets’ Prize for her Selected Poems, 1965-1990 (1994). Hacker’s poetry is noted for its formal sophistication and elegance, combining a conservative aesthetic with autobiographical candour and explicit eroticism: ‘I’d like to put my face between your legs, / lick you, my fingers in you, till you moan’ (‘Estival Passage 9’, Love, Death). She lives in New York City and Paris.