Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator.
[5][6] Her subject matter combines her roots in the classics with the intimately personal, with memory and elegy recurring themes throughout her work.
[5] Her late husband George Edwards’s illness with early-onset dementia gave rise not only to her 2011 memoir Strange Relation but also to an involvement in the field of medical humanities.
[10][11][12] Her translations of writers including Tibullus, Charles Baudelaire, and the Greek poet Konstantinos Karyotakis, were collected in Other Worlds Than This (1994).
[14] Hadas lives in New York City and Danville Vermont and is married to the visual artist Shalom Gorewitz, with whom she collaborates on poetry and video.