Office: Keezell 409
Phone: 540-568-3756
Email: kutchill@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008 Tu 11:30-1:30 and 4:30-5:30

Courses:
Spring 2008
Eng 494 - Advanced Creative Writing - Poetry

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, is forthcoming from 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.

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, and Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West (Houghton Mifflin).  Her essays are forthcoming in Teens: a Literary Anthology (University of Iowa Press), and in Let There Be Night (University of Nevada, Reno), and in an anthology on the Australian poet, Judith Wright.

Kutchins 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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