Ishion Hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Port Antonio, Jamaica |
| Occupation | Professor,[1] Poetry |
| Nationality | Jamaican |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies, New York University, University of Utah |
Ishion Hutchinson is a Jamaican poet and essayist.
Biography
Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica.[2] He received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and completed graduate studies at the University of Utah.[3][2]
His poetry and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry Review (UK), Narrative, New Letters, Granta, Gulf Coast, The Huffington Post, The Wolf (UK), Prairie Schooner,[4] Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and the LA Review.[2]
He currently teaches courses in poetry and creative writing at Cornell University and serves as contributing editor to the literary journal, Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.[5]
Awards and honors
His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.[6] Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award[7] and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize.[8] His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.[9] He won a 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry.[10]
Bibliography
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Poetry
- Collections
- Far district : poems. 2010.
- House of Lords and Commons. 2016.
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| The old professor's book | 2018 | "The old professor's book". The New Yorker. 94 (28): 37. September 17, 2018. |
References
- ^ "Five Questions for Ishion Hutchinson".
- ^ a b c "Ishion Hutchinson". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ "University of Utah | Alumni Connection". ulink.utah.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "This Year's Award Winners | Whiting Writers' Awards | Programs | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation". whitingfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ "Department of English at Cornell University | People". english.arts.cornell.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ Holly Bynoe (13 August 2011). "Ishion Hutchinson wins PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ Julie Bosman, "10 Receive Whiting Writers' Awards", The New York Times, 21 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ Geoffrey Philp (17 May 2011). "Ishion Hutchinson Wins Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize". geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ Daniel Aloi (20 March 2017). "Hutchinson wins National Book Critics Circle poetry award". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ "Ishion Hutchinson". Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes. March 12, 2019. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
External links
- Author Website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Ishion Hutchinson and Teju Cole In Conversation: "Landscape on Which Memory Falls". Work In Progress, March 2017.