lshion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections House of Lords and Commons (Faber & Faber, 2018), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Far District (Faber & Faber, 2021), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Award, and a Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, among other honours. Hutchinson is a professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Photo © Marco Giugliarelli