J. Bailey Hutchinson is the author of Gut: Poems, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize judged by Patricia Smith. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow, she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hutchinson is originally from Memphis, Tennessee, where she obtained her BA from Rhodes College. She earned her MFA from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she served as Social Media Editor and Poetry Editor for the Arkansas International and Assistant Director of the Open Mouth Literary Center. She teaches creative writing workshops through a number of organizations, including the The Loft Literary Center, and works as an editor for Milkweed Editions.

Her work has been featured by Ninth Letter, Beloit, Muzzle Magazine, BOAAT, and more. She has published a variety of capsule reviews on contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. A New South Writing Contest First Prize winner, she is the recipient of a James T. Whitehead Creative Writing Endowment, a Felix Christopher McKean Memorial Award for Poetry, a Lily Peter Fellowship in Poetry, and a grant from Artists 360.

(HOME photo by Kat Wilson. ABOUT photo by Petra Lee. ALL OTHER photos by my dad, probably.)