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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), is shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize. They are a 2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist, a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow, and they were selected as a runner-up for The Missouri Review’s 2022 “Poem of the Year” Award. Their work has appeared in LitHub, Adroit, London Magazine, Guernica, fourteen poems, 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.