Christina Hutchins
Christina Hutchins is an American poet. She was the first poet laureate of Albany, California from 2008 to 2012.[1] She is widely published[2] and has won several awards for her poetry, including The Missouri Review Editors Prize, National Poetry Review's Finch Prize, and a Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her second book Tender the Maker won the 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award,[1] and her chapbook Radiantly We Inhabit the Air won the 2011 Robin Becker Prize.[3] In 2017 she became a Dartmouth Poet in Residence, and she lived in Robert Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire. .[3] Hutchins was born in 1961 in San Jose, California[2] and educated at University of California at Davis (BS Biochemistry and Piano Performance), Harvard University(MDiv, top graduate 1991), and holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Process Philosophy and Poetry from the Graduate Theological Union. She taught master's students for 18 years at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She is also an ordained minister in the Congregational/United Church of Christ. [2]
Works
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[edit]- Tender the Maker Utah State University Press (2015)[2]
- The Stranger Dissolves Sixteen Rivers Press (2011)[2]
Chapbooks
[edit]- Radiantly We Inhabit the Air Seven Kitchens Press (2011) [4]
- Collecting Light Acacia Books (1999) [4]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Baldassari, Erin (7 October 2015). "Albany's First Poet Laureate Debuts Newest Book". East Bay Express. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Christina Hutchins Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. 11 September 2003. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ a b "2017 Dartmouth Poet in Residence". Frost Place. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Christina Hutchins Archives". Still Point Digital Press. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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