Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and, in 2012, a PhD from the University of Utah.

Hutchinson is the author of School of Instructions: A Poem (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), short-listed for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize; House of Lords and Commons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award; and Far District (Peepal Tree Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and republished by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2024. He is also the author of the essay collection Fugitive Tilts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025). 

Hutchinson’s other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Whiting Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry.

Hutchinson is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, New York.