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Poet & Essayist

Gustav Parker Hibbett (they/he) is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Their first collection, High Jump as Icarus Story, is being published in July 2024 with Banshee Press. They are a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow, a 32 Poems Featured Emerging Poet, and they were selected as a runner-up for The Missouri Review’s 2022 “Poem of the Year” Award. Their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, 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.