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.