Editing Marilyn Hacker (section)

== Early life and education ==
Hacker was born and raised in [[Bronx]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the only child of Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a management consultant and her mother a teacher.<ref name="gale">{{cite web |website=Encyclopedia.com |title=Hacker, Marilyn 1942- |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hacker-marilyn-1942 |publisher=Gale |date=2009}}</ref> Hacker attended the [[Bronx High School of Science]], where she met her future husband [[Samuel R. Delany]], who would become a well-known [[science-fiction]] writer. She enrolled at [[New York University]] at the age of fifteen (B.A., 1964). Three years later, Hacker and Delany traveled from New York to [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]] and were married. In ''The Motion of Light in Water'', Delany said they married in Detroit because of age-of-consent laws and because he was African-American and she was Caucasian: "there were only two states in the union where we could legally wed. The closest one was Michigan."<ref name="delany">{{cite book |last = Delany
  | first = Samuel R.
  | author-link = Samuel R. Delany
  | title = The Motion of Light in Water
  | publisher = [[University of Minnesota Press]]
  | year = 2004
  | pages = 22
  | isbn = 0-9659037-5-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ge9cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT35}}</ref> They settled in New York's [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]].  Their daughter, Iva Hacker-Delany, was born in 1974. Hacker and Delany, after being separated for many years, were divorced in 1980, but remain friends. Hacker identifies as [[lesbian]],<ref name="finch">{{cite journal |last1=Finch |first1=Annie |author-link=Annie Finch |last2=Hacker |first2=Marilyn |title=Marilyn Hacker: An Interview on Form by Annie Finch |journal=The American Poetry Review |volume=25 |issue=3 |date=1996 |pages=23–27 |jstor=27782108}}</ref> and Delany has identified as a [[gay]] man since adolescence.<ref>Delany, Samuel R. "Coming/Out". In ''Shorter Views'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1999).</ref>

In the 1960s and 1970s, Hacker worked mostly in commercial editing.<ref name="pa">{{cite web |website=Poetry Archive |title=Marilyn Hacker |url=https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/marilyn-hacker}}</ref> <!--She returned to NYU, edited the university literary magazine, publishing poems by [[Charles Simic]] and [[Grace Schulman]], and an early screenplay by Martin Scorsese.--><!--commenting that out because I can't verify it - if you can, cite a source and put it back--> She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Romance Languages in 1964.<ref name="aap" />