Publisher comments
Joseph Hutchison is the author of four full-length collections of poems, The Rain At Midnight (Sherman Asher Publishing, 2000); Bed Of Coals (winner of the 1994 Colorado Poetry Award and published by the University of Colorado Press, 1995); House Of Mirrors (James Andrews & Company, Publishers, 1992); and The Undersides Of Leaves (Wayland Press, 1985). He is also the author of six chapbooks, including the 1982 Colorado Governor's Award volume, Shadow-Light, and most recently, The Heart Inside The Heart. Mr. Hutchison's poems have appeared in such publications as American Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Hudson Review, Luna, Midwest Quarterly, Mississippi Review, The Nation, Ohio Review, Poetry (Chicago), and in several anthologies. He has also published short fiction, literary essays, and book reviews in a variety of magazines. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Hutchison graduated summa cum laude from the University of Northern Colorado and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. For several years, he taught writing in Colorado's Poets in the Schools program, for the Rocky Mountain Writers Guild, and for the University of Colorado at Denver; currently, he teaches in The Writer's Program of the University of Denver's University College. A member of PEN Center USA West and The Colorado Authors` League, Mr. Hutchison makes his living as a writer.