JUDE NUTTER was born in North Yorkshire, England, and grew up in northern Germany. Her poems have appeared in numerous national and international journals and she is the recipient of several awards and grants. Her first book-length collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), her second collection, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Her most recent collection is I Wish I Had A Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). In 2004 she spent two months in Antarctica as a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Writers and Artists Program. She has been living and working in Minnesota since 1998.
Her poem, “Goats,” was the winner of Sycamore Review‘s 2007 Wabash Prize for Poetry, judged by Eavan Boland. It appeared in Issue 20.1-Winter/Spring 2008.
Her poem, “Triptych,” was a runner-up of the 2009 Wabash Prize for Poetry, judged by Mark Doty. It appeared in Issue 22.1-Winter/Spring 2010.
