Hutchinson, Ishion: Far District

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections House of Lords and Commons, which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and School of Instructions. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Writers' Award, and a Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry, among other honors. He lives in Ithaca, New York.