Hannah Sullivan

Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection Three Poems (Faber & Faber, 2018) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the Ted Hughes Award, the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize and Michael Murphy Poetry Prize. After a degree in Classics at Cambridge, she went to Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship and received a PhD in English and American Literature in 2008. From 2008 to 2011 she worked as an Assistant Professor in English at Stanford University in California. Her study of modernist writing, The Work of Revision, was published in 2013 and awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy and the 2015 University English Book Prize. Born in London, she now lives in Oxford and teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century English Literature at New College. Her second collection Was It for This was published by Faber & Faber and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023. Photo © Teresa Walton