Hannah Sullivan

Poet and scholar Hannah Sullivan grew up in Ealing, a district of West London. She studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and earned a PhD in English and American literature from Harvard University. From 2008 to 2011, she was an assistant professor of English literature at Stanford University. Her debut poetry collection Three Poems (2018) won the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Sullivan’s book The Work of Revision (2013) argues that the use of the typewriter informed Modernist style of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. The book won the 2014 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy and the 2015 University English Book Prize.

In 2013, Sullivan was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize. She lives in London and is an associate professor of English at New College, Oxford University.