Ishion Hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson | |
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Born | Port Antonio, Jamaica |
Alma mater | University of the West Indies, New York University, University of Utah |
Genre | Poetry |
Ishion Hutchinson is an award-winning Jamaican poet and essayist.
Biography
Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica.[1] 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.[2][1]
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,[3] Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and the LA Review.[1] His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.[4] Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award[5] and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize.[6]
His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.[7]
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.[8]
Bibliography
Collections
- Far District: Poems (2010). ISBN 9781845231576
- House of Lords and Commons (2016). ISBN 9780374173029
References
- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ "Department of English at Cornell University | People". english.arts.cornell.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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.
- Cornell University faculty
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- Jamaican male poets
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