Virginia Chase Sutton

Poet

Tempe, AZ
Arizona US
Email: 
virginiachasesutton@gmail.com
Website: 
www.virginiachasesutton.com

Author's Bio

My three poetry books include: "Of a Transient Nature," published 2016 by Knut House Press; "What Brings You to Del Amo," winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, published by University of New England Press, 2007--the book was reissued in a competition as a free ebook by Doubleback Books, 2018; "Of a Transient Nature," published by Knut House Press; "Embellishments," published by Chatoyant, 2003. And a chapbook, "Down River," 2017, along with a microchapbook,  "After Midnight at the Pzych Hospital," Rinky Dink Press.

Education: 
Vermont College of Fine Arts–Writing MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop Program
Ragdale
Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Manthology: The Male Experience (University of Iowa Press, 2006)
,
All This Useless Beauty: Women Poets on Housework (University of Iowa Press, 2005)
,
Are You Experienced? Baby Boomers at Midlife (University of Iowa Press, 2004)
Books:
Of a Transient Nature (Knut House Press, 2016)
,
What Brings You to Del Amo (University Press of New England, 2007)
,
Embellishments (Chatoyant, 2003)
Chapbooks:
Down River (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
,
After Midnight at the Psych Hospital (Rinky Dink Press, 2017)
Journals:
13th Moon
,
Alimentum
,
Antioch Review
,
Bellevue Literary Review
,
Boulevard
,
Coe Review
,
Laurel Review
,
MacGuffin
,
Paris Review
,
Paterson Literary Review
,
Ploughshares
,
Poet Lore
,
Quarterly West
,
Redactions
,
Rise Up Review
,
So to Speak
,
Spoon River Poetry Review
,
SWWIM Every Day
,
The Comstock Review
,
Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature
,
Tuck Magazine
,
Western Humanities Review
,
Witness
Prizes won: 

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize for a poetry book competition, which won a competition by Doubleback Books, and is reissued recently by Doubleback as a free e-book; Louis Untermeyer Scholar in Poetry at Breadloaf; first prize Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award; fellow Writers@Work; finalist Dana Prize in poetry; finalist for the National Poetry Competition for the National Writers' Union; winner National Poet Hunt; winner Paumanock Visiting Writer's Award and Reading Series; seven nominations for the Pushcart Prize.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Mark Doty; Natasha Trethewey; Lynda Hull; Sharon Olds; Louise Gluck; Cynthia Hogue;
What I'm reading now: 
Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck, Deep Lane by Mark Doty, The Wellspring by Sharon Olds, The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky, The Complete Poems of Lynda Hull by Lynda Hull, Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any, Disability, Illness/Wellness, Mental Health, Women
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Muncie, IN
Indiana
Raised in: 
Deerfield, IL
Illinois
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Last update: May 22, 2019