Hannah Sullivan lives in London with her husband and two sons and is an Associate Professor of English at New College, Oxford. She received her PhD from Harvard in 2008 and taught in California for four years. Her study of modernist writing, The Work of Revision, was published in 2013 and awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy. Her first collection Three Poems (2018) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Was It for This (2023) continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.