Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson
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

  1. 1 2 3 "Ishion Hutchinson". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "University of Utah | Alumni Connection". ulink.utah.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Holly Bynoe (13 August 2011). "Ishion Hutchinson wins PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Julie Bosman, "10 Receive Whiting Writers' Awards", The New York Times, 21 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  6. ↑ Geoffrey Philp (17 May 2011). "Ishion Hutchinson Wins Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize". geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  7. ↑ Daniel Aloi (20 March 2017). "Hutchinson wins National Book Critics Circle poetry award". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "Department of English at Cornell University | People". english.arts.cornell.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2014.


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