Laurie Kutchins

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

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[edit] Personal life

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Education

[edit] Books

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

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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