Laurie Kutchins

Laurie Kutchins is an American poet.

Life

She grew up in Wyoming. She graduated from Carleton College, and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

She is a Professor in the English Department at James Madison University. ^[1] She has also been a visiting writer at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty member of the Taos Summer Writers Conference. ^[2]

Her work appeared in The New Yorker , ^[3] The Georgia Review , Ploughshares , ^[4] The Kenyon Review , The Southern Review , Poetry , West Branch , Denver Quarterly , and LIT. ^[5]

She lives in Singers Glen, Virginia.

Awards

• Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry
• Texas Tech University Press First Book Award (1993)

Fellowships and grants

• Two fellowships from the Virginia Council on the Arts
• Two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Commission on the Arts
• Educational Leave and Research grants from James Madison University
• MacDowell Colony residency
• Ucross Foundation residency
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency

Books

• Slope of the Child Everlasting: Poems. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007. ISBN   978-1-929918-91-1.
• The Night Path. BOA Editions. 1997. ISBN   978-1-880238-49-3.
• Between Towns. Texas Tech University. 1993. ISBN   978-0-89672-296-5.

Anthologies

• A Tough and Tender Kinship (anthology)
• Mark Tredinnick, ed. (2003). A Place on Earth: Nature Writers from North America and Australia. UNSW Press. ISBN   978-0-86840-654-1.

References

1. "James Madison University". jmu.edu. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
2. "Jackson Hole Writers Conference - Faculty". Archived from the original on 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
3. "Search – The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
4. "Read By Author". pshares.org. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
5. "Authors – BOA Editions". boaeditions.org. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2015.