Saskia Hamilton
Saskia Hamilton (born 1967 Washington, D.C.) is an American poet. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., from New York University with an M.A., and from Boston University with Ph.D. She worked for the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Lannan Foundation[1] and now teaches at Barnard College.[2] She was a judge for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Awards[]
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship[3]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[3]
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship[4]
Works[]
- Corridor, Graywolf Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-55597-675-0
- Canal Arc, 2005, ISBN 978-1-904614-15-9
- Divide These, Graywolf Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55597-422-0
- As for Dream, Graywolf Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-55597-316-2
As editor[]
- The Letters of Robert Lowell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 978-0-374-53034-1
- Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Editors Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton, Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 9780374531898
References in culture[]
- Saskia Hamilton was featured on the tenth track of the 2010 Ben Folds/Nick Hornby collaborative album Lonely Avenue as the subject of an eponymous song.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Saskia Hamilton | Academy of American Poets". www.poets.org. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ "Saskia Hamilton | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Saskia Hamilton". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ Guggenheim profile Archived 2009-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Macdonald, John (13 October 2010). "Ben Folds, Nick Hornby Bring Collabo to Life in NYC". Spin.
Categories:
- 1967 births
- Poets from Washington, D.C.
- Kenyon College alumni
- New York University alumni
- Barnard College faculty
- Living people
- American women poets
- Folger Shakespeare Library