Ishion Hutchinson

About Ishion Hutchinson

2012-present (2020: Director of the MFA program) Cornell University, Meringoff Sesquicentennial Fellow Associate Professor

2017-present Faculty Member, New York University Low Residency in Paris,

2011 Adjunct Professor of English, American University

2011 Instructor, University of Utah

2010-2011 Adjunct Professor of English Literature, University of Baltimore

2010-2011 Adjunct Professor of English Literature, Maryland Institute College of Art

2007-2008 Instructor, New York University

Since 2010 he has taught as a visiting poet at several workshops on the craft of poetry in the US, the Caribbean, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Africa.

Publications Selected Books 2022 Fugitive Tilts: Essays

2019 The Fire Thus Kindled May Be Kindled Again: On Frederick Douglass (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

2016 House of Lords and Commons. Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York (published 2017 in the UK by Faber & Faber: London)

• 2010-2011 Adjunct Professor of English Literature, American University

• 2010 Far District. PeepalTree Press: Leeds, UK (Reissue 2021 by Faber & Faber in the UK and 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the states)

Selected Reviews and Profiles:

• The Financial Times,
• The New Yorker,
• The New York Times Book Review,
• The Observer,
• The Guardian,
• Time,
• Time Literary Supplement,
• The Economist,
• The New Statesman,
• Poetry International,
• The Caribbean Review of books,
• NPR,
• PBS
• and the BBC World Service.

Selected Awards:

• 2020 – Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship (postponed 2023)
• 2019 – Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry
• 2018 – Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Finalist Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
• 2016 – Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
• Finalists L.A. Times Book Review for Poetry
• 2011-2014 – Whiting Writers’ Award
• Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award
• PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Far District