Will Schutt

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Will Schutt
Born1981
New York City
Occupationtranslator
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOberlin College,
Hollins University
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsYale Series of Younger Poets

Will Schutt (born 1981 New York City) is the author of Westerly (Yale University Press, 2013), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award. [1]

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Life

He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Hollins University, 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. [2]

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, [3] Blackbird, [4] FIELD, Narrative, [5] The New Republic, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review Online and elsewhere.

He is the son of American novelist Christine Schutt.

He currently lives with his wife in Baltimore, Maryland.

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References

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  2. "Stadler Fellowships". Bucknell University. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. "AGNI Online: Author Will Schutt" . Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  4. ""After Music" by Will Schutt - Blackbird v11n1 - #poetry" . Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  5. "Will Schutt". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2016.