Laurie Kutchins

Laurie Kutchins

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

Personal life

Laurie Kutchins lives in Singers Glen, Virginia. She grew up in Wyoming.

Career

Laurie Kutchins 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.

Education

* BA, Carleton College
* MFA, University of Massachusetts' MFA Program for Poets & Writers

Books

* Slope of the Child Everlasting: Poems
* The Night Path
* Between Towns

Awards

* Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
* Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry.
* Texas Tech University Press First Book Award (1993)

Other Publications

* The New Yorker
* The Georgia Review
* Ploughshares
* Kenyon Review
* Southern Review
* Poetry
* West Branch
* Denver Quarterly
* LIT
* A Tough and Tender Kinship (anthology)
* A Place on Earth: Nature Writers from North America and Australia (anthology)

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


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