Rachel Hadas is the author of numerous collections of poetry and essays, and is also a translator, whose verse renderings of Euripides' two Iphigenia plays were published in the spring of 2018 by Northwestern University Press. Some of Rachel Hadas's other recent books are Questions in the Vestibule, poems (Northwestern, 2016); Talking to the Dead, essays (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015); and Strange Relation, memoir (Paul Dry Books, 2011). The recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she has taught for many years.