Saskia Hamilton

Saskia Hamilton (born 1967 Washington, D.C.) is an American poet. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., from New York University with an M.A., and from Boston University with Ph.D. She worked for the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Lannan Foundation and now teaches at Barnard College. She was a judge for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.

• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

• Corridor, Graywolf Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-55597-675-0
• Canal Arc, 2005, ISBN 978-1-904614-15-9
• Divide These, Graywolf Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55597-422-0
• As for Dream, Graywolf Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-55597-316-2

• The Letters of Robert Lowell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 978-0-374-53034-1
• Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Editors Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton, Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 9780374531898

• Saskia Hamilton was featured on the tenth track of the 2010 Ben Folds/Nick Hornby collaborative album Lonely Avenue as the subject of an eponymous song.