Poetry from Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Gustav Parker Hibbett
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ABOUT THE POETS
Sasha Debevec-McKenney’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the Yale Review. She was the 2020-2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and is currently a creative writing fellow at Emory University. Joy is My Middle Name was published in July by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Gustav Parker Hibbett’s first poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), was shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. They are the 2025 Commissioned Writer for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and they were a 2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist and a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow. Their work has appeared in LitHub, Adroit, London Magazine, Guernica, fourteen poems, The Stinging Fly, 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.
