Highlights
Ishion Hutchinson: Reading, On-stage Interview, and Signing
Event Details
Master Class: February 8, 4 p.m., SunTrust Auditorium.
Reading: February 8, 7:30 p.m., Bush Auditorium.
Speaker Bio
Current as of
Born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, poet Ishion Hutchinson earned a BA at the University of the West Indies, an MFA at New York University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Utah. He is the author of two collections of poetry:
Far District (2010), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and
House of Lords and Commons (2016), winner of the National Books Critics Circle award. Hutchinson’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. A Pirogue Fellow, Hutchinson teaches at Cornell University.
