{{short description|British academic and poet (born 1979)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox writer | name = Hannah Sullivan | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1979|01|03}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/292640194|title=Sullivan, Hannah, 1979|website=VIAF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424122547/https://viaf.org/viaf/292640194/|archive-date=2019-04-24|url-status=|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Academic, poet | language = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = Notting Hill and Ealing High School | alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge<br>London Consortium<br>Harvard University | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Was It for This'' (2023)<ref name="Was It for This">{{cite web |language=English|title=''Was It for This'' |url=https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571362271-was-it-for-this/|website=Faber & Faber |access-date=30 October 2023}}</ref> <br>''Three Poems'' (2018) <br> ''The Work of Revision'' (2013)<ref name="The Work of Revision">{{cite book |language=English|title=''The Work of Revision'' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzvYMgEACAAJ|date=January 2013 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-07312-8 |access-date=30 October 2023}}</ref> | spouse = | partner = | awards = T. S. Eliot Prize (2018) <br> John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize (2019) <br> Philip Leverhulme Prize (2013) | signature = | signature_alt = | portaldisp = | employer = Stanford University<br>New College, Oxford | website = }}
'''Hannah Sullivan''' (born 3 January 1979) is a British academic and poet. She is the author of ''The Work of Revision'' (Harvard University Press, 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.<ref name="Hannah Sullivan New College Oxford">{{cite web |language=English|title=Hannah Sullivan, Tutor in English |url=https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/hannah-sullivan|website=New College |access-date=30 October 2023}}</ref>
==Biography== Sullivan attended Trinity College, Cambridge, earning a double starred first in Classics in 2000. She spent a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, studying comparative literature, and subsequently obtained a Master of Research (M.Res) in cultural studies at the London Consortium. She returned to Harvard University to work on a PhD in English and American literature, which she received in 2008.<ref name="The Guardian-TS Eliot Prize" /><ref name="Oxford faculty page">{{cite web |title=Dr. Hannah Sullivan |url=https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-hannah-sullivan#tab-417741 |website=University of Oxford |access-date=6 March 2019|language=English}}</ref> She spent four years as an assistant professor of English literature at Stanford University before returning to England.<ref name="The Guardian-TS Eliot Prize" />
In 2013, Sullivan published ''The Work of Revision'', an academic study of how revision and rewriting influenced the style of literary modernism, for which she received the 2014 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the 2014 University English Book Prize.<ref name="University English book prize">{{cite web |language=English|title=University English Book Prize |url=http://www.universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/ |website=University English |access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref> On the basis of her first book, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to write a second book on free verse.<ref name="Oxford faculty page" />
In 2018, she published her first poetry collection, ''Three Poems'' (Faber),<ref name="The Guardian—Three Poems review">{{cite web |last1=Kellaway |first1=Kate |title=Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan—Review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/20/three-poems-by-hannah-sullivan-review |website=The Guardian |date=20 March 2018 |accessdate=6 March 2019}}</ref> which won the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize for the best new poetry collection published in Great Britain or Ireland.<ref name="Poetry book society">{{cite web |title=Poetry Book Society |url=https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist |website=Poetry Book Society |date=11 January 2017 |access-date=7 March 2019|language=English}}</ref>
Sullivan has been an associate professor of English at New College, Oxford since 2012.<ref name="The Guardian-TS Eliot Prize">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/14/a-star-is-born-ts-eliot-prize-goes-to-hannah-sullivans-debut|title='A star is born': TS Eliot prize goes to Hannah Sullivan's debut|last1=Cain|first1=Sian|website=The Guardian|date=14 January 2019|language=English|access-date=6 March 2019}}</ref> She lives in London with her husband and two children.<ref name="Author Page">{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/author/hannah-sullivan/|title=Author Page|website= Faber & Faber|access-date=30 October 2023|language=English}}</ref>
==Selected publications== *{{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=The Work of Revision |date=2013 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-07312-8|language=English}} *{{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=Three Poems |date=2018 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-33767-5|language=English}} *{{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=Was It for This |date=2023 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-36227-1|language=English}}
==Awards and recognition== * T. S. Eliot Prize (2018)<ref name="The Guardian-TS Eliot Prize" /> * John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize (2018)<ref name="Irish Times">{{cite web |title=Hannah Sullivan wins inaugural John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/hannah-sullivan-wins-inaugural-john-pollard-foundation-international-poetry-prize-1.3862488 |website=Irish Times |date=16 April 2019|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref> * Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2014)<ref name="Oxford faculty page" /> * Philip Leverhulme Prize (2013)<ref name="Cherwell: Leverhulme award">{{cite web |last1=Maddocks |first1=Eleanor |title=Oxford researchers awarded prestigious prize |url=https://cherwell.org/2013/11/07/oxford-researchers-awarded-prestigious-prize/ |website=Cherwell.org |date=7 November 2013 |access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref>
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