Seavey Visiting Writers Series Presents Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections, Far District and House of Lords and Commons. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and the Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches in the graduate at Cornell University and is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.