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Poet & Essayist

Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Their first poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), was  shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. They are the 2025 Commissioned Writer for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and they were 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 they are currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Practice at Trinity College Dublin, where they are an Early Career Research Fellow at the Long Room Hub.

They are represented by Angelique Tran Van Sang at Felicity Bryan Associates.