Saskia Hamilton
Encyclopedia
Saskia Hamilton is an American poet. She graduated from Kenyon College
with a B.A., and from New York University
with an M.A. She worked for the Folger Shakespeare Library
, and the Lannan Foundation. and now teaches at Barnard College
.
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...
with a B.A., and from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
with an M.A. She worked for the Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...
, and the Lannan Foundation. and now teaches at Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
.
Awards
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
- National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowship - 2009 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
Works
- 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