Laurence Hutchman grew up in Emery, Northwest Toronto. He
received his PhD at the Universite de
Montreal and has taught at a number of universities including
Concordia University, the University
of Western Ontario and the Universite de Moncton in Edmundston
where he was a professor for
twenty-three years.
Laurence Hutchman has published nine books of poetry, co-edited
Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic
Canada and edited a book of interviews In the Writers' Words:
Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets.
He has received numerous grants and won awards including the WFNB's
prize for individual poems
and in 2007 he received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence. His
poetry has been translated into
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Polish and Chinese. He has served
as representative for Quebec and
New Brunswick/PEI for the League of Canadian Poets and as President
of the Writers' Federation of
New Brunswick. Hutchman has had many readings and conducted
numerous workshops in Canada,
the United States, China, Ireland and Bulgaria.
He lives with his wife, the painter Eva Kolacz-Hutchman in
Oakville.
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