Laurie Kutchins

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Name Laurie Kutchins Role Poet		Education Carleton College

Books Slope of the Child Everlasting, The night path, Between Towns: Poems

Prof. Laurie Kutchins: The Importance of Focus

Laurie Kutchins is an American poet and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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. She has also been a visiting writer at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty member of the Taos Summer Writers Conference.

Her work appeared in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, and LIT.

She lives in Singers Glen, Virginia.

Awards

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997

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

Laurie Kutchins Wikipedia

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