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]

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