Ishion Hutchinson is a Jamaican poet and essayist.
Ishion Hutchinson | |
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Born | Port Antonio, Jamaica |
Occupation | Professor,[1] Poetry |
Nationality | Jamaican |
Alma mater | University of the West Indies, New York University, University of Utah |
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]
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]
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Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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The old professor's book | 2018 | "The old professor's book". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. September 17, 2018. p. 37. | |