Will Schutt (born 1981 New York City) is the author of Westerly (Yale University Press, 2013), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
[1] He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Hollins University, where he received his MFA.
He is also the recipient of fellowships from the James Merrill House, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Reginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship, the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Fellowship.
[2] In 2023, Princeton University Press published his translations of another Italian poet, Fabio Pusterla, in a collection called Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems.
He lives in Rome and teaches at John Cabot University.