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Hannah Sullivan

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Hannah Sullivan

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1979-01-03 (London)
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Residence History
London

Career

Occupations
Academic, Poet
Active Years
2000-2024
Affiliations
Stanford University, New College, Oxford

Education

Notting Hill and Ealing High School
Country: United Kingdom
Trinity College, Cambridge
Classics
Degree: double starred first
Period: until 2000
Year of Graduation: 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Double starred first in Classics
Harvard University
Comparative literature
Period: 2000-2001
Country: United States
Kennedy Scholar for one year
London Consortium
Cultural studies
Degree: M.Res
Country: United Kingdom
Master of Research
Harvard University
English and American literature
Degree: PhD
Year of Graduation: 2008
Country: United States

Awards

T. S. Eliot Prize
2018
Work: Three Poems
Organization: Poetry Book Society
Result: winner
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
2019
Work: Three Poems
Organization: John Pollard Foundation
Result: winner
Philip Leverhulme Prize
2013
Result: winner
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
2014
Work: The Work of Revision
Organization: British Academy
Result: winner
University English Book Prize
2014
Work: The Work of Revision
Organization: University English
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Work of Revision

2013 Literary criticism

An academic study on how revision influenced the style of literary modernism.

revisionmodernism

Three Poems

2018 Poetry

Debut poetry collection containing three long poems.

contemporary lifememory

Was It for This

2023 Poetry

Poetry collection published in 2023.

Bibliography

  • The Work of Revision
  • Three Poems
  • Was It for This

Style & Themes

Literary Style
free verseformal innovation
Recurring Motifs
revisionmodernity

Legacy

British poet and academic awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize. Known for work on modernism and poetry.

Trivia

  • Writer from London
  • Alumna of Cambridge and Harvard
  • Former assistant professor at Stanford, now associate professor at Oxford