Will Schutt
Will Schutt (born 1981, New York City) is an American author. He wrote Westerly (Yale University Press, 2013), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
Will Schutt
- Name
- Will Schutt
- Born
- 1981
- Birthplace
- New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet, translator
- Education
- Oberlin College, Hollins University
- Awards
- Yale Series of Younger Poets, Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- Nationality
- United States
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• Name — Will Schutt • Born — 1981 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — Poet, translator • Education — Oberlin College, Hollins University • Genre — Poetry • Awards — Yale Series of Younger Poets, Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship • Website — https: www.wcschutt.com/
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Will Schutt (born 1981) is recorded as a writer and translator. Will Schutt was born in 1981.
Life
Life
Schutt is a graduate of Oberlin College and Hollins University, where he received his MFA. He is 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 Scholarship. He was awarded fellowships to attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In 2023, Princeton University Press published his translations of an Italian poet, Fabio Pusterla, in Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems. For his translations of Pusterla, Schutt received the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award and the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation prize. His poems and translations have appeared in Agni, Blackbird, FIELD, Narrative, The New Republic, The Southern Review, and Kenyon Review Online. He is the son of American novelist Christine Schutt. He lives in Rome, Italy, and teaches at John Cabot University.
Works
Works
• Westerly, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013., • My Life I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, Oberlin, OH.: Oberlin College Press, 2018. • Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2023.
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Will Schutt is Baltimore, Maryland.
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- 1.Yale University Press London. Will Schutt wins the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012. 8 March 2012.
- 2.Bucknell University. Stadler Fellowships.
- 3.AGNI Online: Author Will Schutt.
- 4.Virginia Commonwealth University. "After Music" by Will Schutt - Blackbird v11n1 - #poetry.
- 5.Will Schutt. Narrative Magazine. 22 March 2011.
- 6.John Cabot University. Faculty William Schutt 2023 Lecturer in Creative Writing.
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