Saskia Hamilton

Saskia Hamilton (born 1967 Washington, D.C.) is an American poet. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from New York University with an M.A. She worked for the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Lannan Foundation and now teaches at Barnard College. She was a judge for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Awards

• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• Corridor, Graywolf Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-55597-675-0
• Canal Arc, 2005, ISBN 978-1-904614-15-9
• Divide These, Graywolf Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55597-422-0
• As for Dream, Graywolf Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-55597-316-2

As editor

• The Letters of Robert Lowell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 978-0-374-53034-1
• Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Editors Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton, Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 9780374531898

References in culture

• Saskia Hamilton was featured on the tenth track of the 2010 Ben Folds/Nick Hornby collaborative album Lonely Avenue as the subject of an eponymous song, written from the point of view of a teenage poetry fan whose attraction is purely based on her name. Hornby said that he "thought she had a fantastic name for her line of work."