Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specializing in international public health, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero”. He divides his time between London and Beirut.

Hirschhorn received a Master in Fine Arts degree from Vermont College in 1994. His poems have been published in over a dozen journals, three anthologies, four pamphlets, and one full collection (A Cracked River, Slow Dancer Press, UK). A second full collection, Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse, has been published in May 2008.