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 an Associate 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.
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