Gustav Parker Hibbett

Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Originally from New Mexico, they are currently pursuing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. They are a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow, a 2022 Djanikian Scholars semi-finalist, and a 32 Poems Featured Emerging Poet. Recently, they were selected as a runner-up for The Missouri Review’s 2022 Poem of the Year award. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Guernica, fourteen poems, The Stinging Fly, London Magazine, Adroit, and elsewhere. You can also find them on Twitter (@gustav_parker) and Instagram (@gustavparker). Their debut collection of poetry High Jump as Icarus Story is published by Banshee Press in July 2024.