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Jean Hollander (née Haberman; July 5, 1928 – April 10, 2019) was a poet, translator and teacher. Together with her husband Robert Hollander she published a verse translation of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, for which she was awarded the Gold Medal for Dante Translation from the City of Florence. She has taught literature and writing at Princeton University, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, where she did her graduate work, and The College of New Jersey, where she was director of the annual Writers’ Conference for twenty-three years. She was poetry editor and columnist at the Princeton Packet and has given over a hundred readings of her own poetry, as well as workshops at universities, libraries, bookstores, and poetry events, such as the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the University of Dallas, the Poetry Society of America, Barnes & Noble Reading Series in Manhattan and Princeton, Station WPFW for Voice of America, Harvard University, Poets House and others. She has published over three hundred poems in hundreds of magazines and anthologies, such as American Scholar, Asheville Poetry Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Literary Review, National Review, Nimrod, Pegasus, Poem, Sewanee Review, Southern Humanities Review and others.