Gustav Parker Hibbett

Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Their first poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), won the John Pollard International Poetry Prize 2025 and the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award 2025. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024, Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2025, and the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize 2025. They were the 2025 Commissioned Writer for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, a 2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist and a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow. Their work has appeared in LitHub, Adroit, London Magazine, Guernica, fourteen poems, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. They hold a BA in English from Stanford University, and a PhD in Literary Practice at Trinity College Dublin, where they were an Early Career Research Fellow at the Long Room Hub.

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