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Hannah Sullivan

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Hannah Sullivan
Born (1979-01-03) 3 January 1979 (age 45)[1]
OccupationAcademic, poet
EducationNotting Hill and Ealing High School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Harvard University
EmployerNew College, Oxford
Notable worksWas It for This (2023)[2]
Three Poems (2018)
The Work of Revision (2013)[3]
Notable awardsT. S. Eliot Prize (2018)
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize (2019)
Philip Leverhulme Prize (2013)

Hannah Sullivan (born 3 January 1979) is a British academic and poet. She is the author of The Work of Revision (Harvard University Press, 2013), which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the University English Book Prize, as well as the poetry collection Three Poems (Faber, 2018), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is associate professor of English literature at New College, Oxford.[4]

Biography

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Sullivan attended Trinity College, Cambridge, earning a double starred first in Classics in 2000. She spent a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, studying comparative literature, and subsequently obtained a Master of Research (M.Res) in cultural studies at the London Consortium. She returned to Harvard University to work on a PhD in English and American literature, which she received in 2008.[5][6] She spent four years as an assistant professor of English literature at Stanford University before returning to England.[5]

In 2013, Sullivan published The Work of Revision, an academic study of how revision and rewriting influenced the style of literary modernism, for which she received the 2014 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the 2014 University English Book Prize.[7] On the basis of her first book, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to write a second book on free verse.[6]

In 2018, she published her first poetry collection, Three Poems (Faber),[8] which won the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize for the best new poetry collection published in Great Britain or Ireland.[9]

Sullivan has been an associate professor of English at New College, Oxford since 2012.[5] She lives in London with her husband and two children.[10]

Selected publications

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  • The Work of Revision. Harvard University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-674-07312-8.
  • Three Poems. Faber and Faber. 2018. ISBN 978-0-571-33767-5.
  • Was It for This. Faber and Faber. 2023. ISBN 978-0-571-36227-1.

Awards and recognition

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References

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  1. ^ "Sullivan, Hannah, 1979". VIAF. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Was It for This". Faber & Faber. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  3. ^ The Work of Revision. Harvard University Press. January 2013. ISBN 978-0-674-07312-8. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Hannah Sullivan, Tutor in English". New College. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d Cain, Sian (14 January 2019). "'A star is born': TS Eliot prize goes to Hannah Sullivan's debut". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "Dr. Hannah Sullivan". University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  7. ^ "University English Book Prize". University English. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  8. ^ Kellaway, Kate (20 March 2018). "Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan—Review". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Poetry Book Society". Poetry Book Society. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Author Page". Faber & Faber. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  11. ^ "Hannah Sullivan wins inaugural John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize". Irish Times. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  12. ^ Maddocks, Eleanor (7 November 2013). "Oxford researchers awarded prestigious prize". Cherwell.org. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
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