Ishion Hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson is an award-winning Jamaican poet and essayist.
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 a PhD from the University of Utah.[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,[2] 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.[3] Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award[4] and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize.[5]
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.[6]
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