Susan Hutton

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Susan Hutton
BornDecember 1968 (age 54)
New York City
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Susan Hutton (born December 1968 New York City) is an American poet.

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Life

She was raised in and around Detroit, Michigan.

She graduated from Kalamazoo College, and from the University of Michigan with an MFA, where she studied with Linda Gregerson, David Baker, and Larry Goldstein. [1] She held a Wallace Stegner fellowship in poetry at Stanford University. She lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was director of development for Autumn House Press. [2]

Her work has appeared in Crazyhorse, DoubleTake, Poetry, FIELD, Mid-American Review, [3] Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner. [4]

She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband and two children.

Awards

Works

Reviews

Susan Hutton has put together a first book that feels completely finished—each poem has been smoothed over like a pebble in a stream. As a whole, it is airtight. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Issues | Ploughshares".
  2. ↑ "Agni Online". 15 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Archived September 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Hutton, Susan (2005). "Lost Armies, and: Other Autumns, and: Lorem Ipsum Dolor". Prairie Schooner. 79 (4): 80–81. doi:10.1353/psg.2006.0017. S2CID   71281895. Project MUSE   197926.
  5. ↑ "On the Vanishing of Large Creatures ", Growler Poetry Review, John Findura [ permanent dead link ]
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