Laurie Kutchins is an award-winning poet and prose writer with three books of poetry, including The Night Path (BOA Editions), which was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poems and nonfiction essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Orion. 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) and Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West (Houghton Mifflin). She received the Mirrilese Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University’s M.A. Program in English, and has an MFA from UMass, Amherst.
An excerpted essay from her memoir, Let the Dark River Pass, “The Ward is the World” was chosen as the Honorable Mention for the Kalanithi Award, sponsored by the Stanford Medical School and is the feature nonfiction essay in the Fall 2021 issue of The Kenyon Review. In addition, her excerpted essay “like a god chained to a rock” appeared in Intima, Columbia University’s online journal of literary narrative medicine.