Will Schutt (born 1981

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) is the author of ''Westerly'' (Yale University Press, 2013), selected by

Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Early life Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unti ...

as the winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award.

Life

He is a graduate of

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and

Hollins University Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States ...

, where he received his MFA. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the James Merrill House, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Reginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship, the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Fellowship. He has been awarded fellowships to attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. For his translations of Italian poet Edoardo Sanguineti he received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/America. His poems and translations have appeared in ''Agni, Blackbird, FIELD, Narrative, The New Republic, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review Online and elsewhere. He is the son of American novelist

Christine Schutt Christine Schutt, an American novelist and short story writer, has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She received her BA and MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her MFA from Co ...

. He currently lives with his wife in Baltimore, Maryland.

Works

* ''Westerly'', New Haven, Conn. Yale Univ. Press 2013. ,

References

External links

Will Schutt's tumblr
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