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Laurie Kutchins’ latest book of poems, Slope of the Child Everlasting , was published by BOA in May 2007. Her debut poetry collection, The Night Path (BOA 1997), received the inaugural Isabella Gardner Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her poems and prose essays have been widely published in anthologies and periodicals. Kutchins directs the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at James Madison University and regularly teaches as a faculty member at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference and the Taos Summer Writers Conference.

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