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Ishion Hutchinson
Associate Professor
Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 173
iih2@cornell.edu
607-255-6792
Overview
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections: Far District and House of Lords and Commons. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others. He is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.
Departments/Programs
- Literatures in English
Graduate Fields
- Creative Writing
- English Language and Literature
Research
- Poetry in translation
- American and British poetry
- Creative writing and creative reading
- The long poem and the epic