Barton
Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different
categories: for poetry with The Book of
Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA); for fiction with My Father’s War and Other Stories; and for creative non-fiction
with Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the
Map. Among other honors, he has won a Jerome Foundation Travel & Study
Grant (Sweden), a Loft-McKnight Award, and the Bassine Citation from the
Academy of American Poets. He has written for public radio, and he regularly
performs as one half of The Sutter Brothers. His collaborations with composer
Marya Hart—Bushed: A Poetical, Political,
Partly Musical Tragicomedy in Two Acts and Pine Creek Parish: A Verse Play with Music—have won standing
ovations. Recently retired from the University of Wisconsin, Superior, Barton
Sutter lives in Duluth, on a hillside overlooking Lake Superior, with his wife,
Dorothea Diver.
