Ishion Hutchinson

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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.

The recipient of a Whiting Award and the 2024 Levinson Prize, Hutchinson teaches at Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, New York.