Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District , winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and House of Lords and Commons , which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, and the Whiting Writers' Award, among others. Hutchinson is a professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District , winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and House of Lords and Commons , which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, and the Whiting Writers' Award, among others. Hutchinson is a professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. See less