Saskia Hamilton

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

Awards

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

Works

 * 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

Edited

 * 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(edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton). Macmillan, 2010, ISBN	9780374531898

References in culture

 * Saskia Hamilton was featured on the album Lonely Avenue as the subject of the eponymous song written by Ben Folds and Nick Hornby who 'thought she had a fantastic name for her line of work'. The liner notes indicate that the song's narrator is a teenage poetry nerd. Ben Folds commissioned Charlie McDonnell to make a video for the song.