Laurie
Kutchins has published two previous books of poetry. The
Night Path (BOA Editions, 1997) received the inaugural
Isabella Gardner Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
in Poetry, and Between Towns was winner of the Texas
Tech University Press First Book Award in 1993. Her poems have
been published widely in anthologies and periodicals, including
The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review,
Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, West Branch, and Denver
Quarterly. Kutchins has also published prose essays in
The Georgia Review, LIT, and in the anthologies
A Tough and Tender Kinship, and A Place on Earth: Nature
Writers from North America and Australia.
Laurie Kutchins teaches in the Creative Writing Program at James Madison University. She has also been
a visiting writer at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty
member of the Taos Summer Writers Conference where she offers
workshops exploring the intersection of the creative and therapeutic
processes. Her grants include two literary 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, and residencies at MacDowell,
the Ucross Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts. She maintains strong ties with Wyoming, where she grew
up, a place that continues to impact her artistic life.
Press Materials for Laurie Kutchins
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Books
by Laurie Kutchins:
Slope of the Child Everlasting
The Night Path
