Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson (born 22 August 1983) is a Jamaican poet and essayist.

Biography Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. After attending Titchfield High School, he received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and completed graduate studies at the University of Utah. Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and the Los Angeles Review.

Awards and honors His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize. His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. He won a 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry. His 2023 collection, School of Instructions, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.