Hannah Sullivan (born 3 January 1979) is a British academic and poet. She is the author of ''The Work of Revision'' (

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, 2013), which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the University English Book Prize, as well as the poetry collection '' Three Poems'' ( Faber, 2018), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is associate professor of English literature at New College, Oxford.

Biography

Sullivan attended

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, earning a double starred first in Classics in 2000. She spent a year at

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as a

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, studying

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, and subsequently obtained a

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(M.Res) in cultural studies at the London Consortium. She returned to

to work on a PhD in

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and American literature, which she received in 2008. She spent four years as an assistant professor of English literature at Stanford University before returning to England. In 2013, Sullivan published ''The Work of Revision'', an academic study of how revision and rewriting influenced the style of

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, for which she received the 2014 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the 2014 University English Book Prize. On the basis of her first book, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to write a second book on

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. In 2018, she published her first poetry collection, '' Three Poems'' ( Faber), which won the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize for the best new poetry collection published in

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. Sullivan is currently an associate professor of

at New College, Oxford. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

Selected publications

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Awards and recognition

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(2018) * John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize (2018) * Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2014) * Philip Leverhulme Prize (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Hannah Writers from London English women poets Living people Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Harvard University alumni Kennedy Scholarships 1979 births People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School English women non-fiction writers 21st-century English poets 21st-century English women writers 21st-century British non-fiction writers T. S. Eliot Prize winners