Christina Hutchins

Poet

Albany , CA
California US

Author's Bio

Christina Hutchins’ Tender the Maker (Utah State University Press, 2015) won the May Swenson Award. Her other books are The Stranger Dissolves (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2011), and the chapbooks, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air (Robin Becker Prize, 2011), and Collecting Light (1999). Her poems appear in Antioch Review, The New Republic, Salmagundi, The Southern Review, The Women’s Review of Books, and elsewhere, and essays on philosophies of creativity in volumes by Ashgate, Columbia, and Fordham . She holds degrees from University of California at Davis, Harvard University, and Graduate Theological Union, has worked as a biochemist and Congregational minister, and now teaches graduate students in Berkeley and offers private poetry instruction. She served as the first Poet Laureate of Albany, CA.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
What I Want from You: Voices of Eastbay Lesbian Poets (Raw Art Press, 2006)
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The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets (Chatoyant, 2005)
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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
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Woman Prayers (Harper, 2003)
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God, Literature and Process Thought (Ashgate, 2002)
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Stories From Where We Live: The Pacific Coast (Milkweed Editions, 2001)
Books:
Tender the Maker (Utah State University Press, 2015)
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The Stranger Dissolves (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2011)
Chapbooks:
Radiantly We Inhabit the Air (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011)
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Collecting Light (Acacia Books, 1999)
Journals:
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Alligator Juniper
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American Tanka
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Americas Review
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Bay Windows
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Comstock Review
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Denver Quarterly
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Fireweed
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Frontiers
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Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review
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Iris
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Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
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Margin
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Petroglyph
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Sacred Journey
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Spoon River Poetry Review
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Squaw Review
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Sycamore Review
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Talking River Review
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The New Republic
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Women's Review of Books
Prizes won: 

Christina Hutchins’ awards include the 2015 May Swenson Award of Utah State UP for Tender the Maker and the 2011 Robin Becker Prize for the chapbook, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air. Her first volume, The Stranger Dissolves (2011) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Audre Lorde Prize. She has won The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, National Poetry Review’s Finch Prize, two Deming/Money for Women Awards, the James Phelan Award, and fellowships to Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, and Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Fluent in: 
German
Born in: 
San Jose
Raised in: 
CA
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Last update: Mar 15, 2016