Barton
Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three
different categories: for fiction with My Father's War and
Other Stories; for creative non-fiction with Cold Comfort:
Life at the Top of the Map; and for poetry with The Book
of Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA). Among other
honors, he has won a Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant
(Sweden), a Loft-McKnight Award, and the Bassine Citation from
the Academy of American Poets. He has adapted his poems
for the stage, written for public radio, and regularly performs
as one half of The Sutter Brothers. He teaches English and
Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, Superior.
He has lived in Duluth since 1987.
BOA books by Barton Sutter:
Book of Names: New and Selected Poems
Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey
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