Office: Keezell
409
Phone: 540-568-3756
Email: kutchill@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009
Courses: Fall 2009
ENG 392 Introduction to Creative Writing Poetry, TT 2:00-3:15
ENG 494 Advanced Creative Writing Poetry, Th 3:30-6:00
Education:
B.A. Carleton College
Mirrilese Fellowship in Creative Writing, Stanford University M.A. Program
in English
M.F.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bio:
Laurie Kutchins’ book of poems, Slope of the Child Everlasting , was published by BOA Editions in May 2007. She has published two previous books of poems: Between Towns, recipient of the Texas Tech University Press First Book Award, and The Night Path, recipient of the inaugural Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA Editions, Ltd. in 1997, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Kutchins will be a participant in the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, in Jackson WY, in late June, 2009.
Her poems and nonfiction prose have appeared widely in journals, including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Orion, The Southern Review, LIT, Journal of Mythic Arts, Southerly and West Branch. Her work has also been anthologized in A Place on Earth: an Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America (University of Nebraska Press); Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets on Housework (University of Iowa Press); Birth: a Literary Guide (Iowa); Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West; Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West (Houghton Mifflin); Let There Be Night: Testimonies on Behalf of the Night (University of Nevada, Reno); and in an Australian anthology on the poet, Judith Wright.
Kutchins co-directs the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at JMU, and teaches a variety of courses on poetry writing, poetic craft and creativity, women poets, and art as medicine. She is a co-founder of the faculty creative arts series, Works in Progress, at JMU. She is also a faculty member at the Taos Summer Writers Conference, sponsored by the University of New Mexico.
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