Joyce Sutphen

Joyce Sutphen (born 1949) is an American poet, currently serving as Minnesota's Poet Laureate. She is the state's second laureate, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton in August, 2011. Sutphen also serves as a professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

Life
Sutphen was raised in Saint Joseph, Minnesota and currently resides in the city of Chaska. She holds degrees from the University of Minnesota including her Ph.D. in Renaissance Drama.

Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Water~Stone, Hayden's Ferry, Shenandoah, Luna.

Recognition
Her first book of poetry, Straight Out of View (Beacon Press, 1995), won the Barnard New Women's Poets Prize. Her second, Coming Back to the Body (Holy Cow! Press, 2000), was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, and her third, Naming the Stars (2004), also from Holy Cow! Press, won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.
 * 1994 Barnard Women Poets Prize

Poetry

 * Naming the Stars: Poems. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995; Holy Cow! Press, 2004.

Edited

 * To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota women poets from pre-Territorial days to the present (edited by Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, and Thom Tammaro). New Rivers Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-89823-232-5