Ishion Hutchinson is a Jamaican poet and essayist.
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 |
Biography edit
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 New York Review of Books, 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 edit
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 edit
Poetry edit
- Collections
- Far district. 2010. ISBN 9781845231576.
- House of Lords and Commons. 2016. ISBN 9780374173029.
- School of Instructions: A Poem. 2023. ISBN 9780374610265.
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| The old professor's book | 2018 | "The old professor's book". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. September 17, 2018. p. 37. |
References edit
- ^ "Five Questions for Ishion Hutchinson". 6 July 2015.
- ^ 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 edit
- Author Website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Ishion Hutchinson and Teju Cole In Conversation: "Landscape on Which Memory Falls". Work In Progress, March 2017.