J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet, editor, and educator. She is the author of Gut, selected by Patricia Smith as the winner of the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and has work featured in Salamander, Beloit, Muzzle, BOAAT, and more. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she is an associate editor for Milkweed Editions.

Other poems by J. Bailey Hutchinson in Verse Daily:
March 1, 2019:   "The Minnesota State Fair's Miracle of Birth Center, sponsored by Subaru" J. Bailey Hutchinson "Before I smell it, I imagine..."

Books by J. Bailey Hutchinson:

Other poems on the web by J. Bailey Hutchinson:
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"Lineage"
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About Gut:

"I couldn't be more energized and excited knowing that J. Bailey Hutchinson's Gut is the first winning manuscript in my tenure as the Miller Williams series editor. In addition to snagging first place, Gut also grabs the honor for the most appropriate manuscript title ever—because the gut is exactly where this book hits, relentlessly, poem after poem, page after page. Here is family attending to its family business, its love, its suspicions, and its fears under an insisting sun or a cold and tenacious moon. Here is the thunderous Mississippi River coursing through it all, scrubbing some things blameless, washing away others. Here is bold southern sensibility, rapturous and addictive, crafting poems that are impossible to turn away from. Bailey touts a smoldering command of her slice of the world, and her astute ability to recreate all the delightful nuances of that world is fully at work in this winning book."
—Patricia Smith

"In this dazzling and utterly original debut, J. Bailey Hutchinson writes: ‘It's maybe that I won't believe // words lack feet. And fur.' Sheer bodily presence and desire drive many of the poems in this collection, written in an exuberantly idiosyncratic idiom, with which Hutchinson rassles joyfully and scrappily. Carnality and spirituality jostle each other good-naturedly in these pages, which are delicious and inspiring to read and to savor."
—Sidney Wade