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Deborah Hanan (born January 5, 1949) is an American poet, mother, and grandmother. Her poems have been published in the literary magazines Antaeus and Prairie Schooner, and in the poetic anthology Blood to Remember.

Early life and Education
Raised in New York City, Hanan attended The Dalton School, where she took an early interest in reading and theater, playing Thetis in a theatrical adaptation of Homer's Iliad, and Mephistopheles in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. During summers, she enjoyed horseback riding and camplife near Lake Placid, New York.

Hanan later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, studying anthropology with Irving Goldman before receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Chicago. There, she researched paleolithic cave art with Mircea Eliade before withdrawing from a doctoral program to pursue an interest in poetry.

Returning to Sarah Lawrence for her second Master's degree, Hanan drew accolades from acclaimed poet Thomas Lux, who noted that she had "written some of the best lyric poems [he had] seen on the graduate level (anywhere!)".

Poetry
In the summer of 1988, Prairie Schooner magazine published a series of poetic reflections entitled Munich I, II, III, and IV., which Hanan had written years earlier. Set in contemporary Munich, the poems form a response to the haunting legacy of nazism, juxtaposing images of natural and artistic beauty with references to terror and cruelty.

More personal in its subject matter, On Watching "Heritage: Civilization and The Jews" was published in 1991 in the anthology Blood to Remember: American Poets on The Holocaust. The poem transitions from a meditation on spirituality to the tortured relationship between Hanan's stepfather, Sy, and her mother, Francis Wood Ladd.

The poems Manchurian Fugue, Unlike Anything, Walking Through Rough Wall, Slate Juncos, Fragment, and A Girl’s Sex, were published in the fall 1991 edition of Antaeus magazine. Addressing topics as painful as sexual assault and abortion, these poems are perhaps among the best examples of what Lux described as the "lyric texture and intensity that is [Hanan's] gift."

Motherhood and Grandmotherhood
Hanan is the mother of Bay Amy Yannantuono (born July 28, 1980) and Fred Max Yannantuono (born September 28,1982); and is the grandmother of Max Rian Yannantuono (born June 12, 2019). She considers her grandson to be "a treasure."


 * Bay Amy Yannantuono (July 28, 1980)
 * Fred Max Yannantuono (September 28, 1982)
 * Max Rian Yannantuono (June 12th, 2019)