Laurence Hutchman

Laurence Hutchman grew up in Emery, North York and attended Emery Collegiate Institute. He received his PhD at the Université de Montreal in 1988. He has taught at a number of universities including Concordia University, the University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario, and the Université de Moncton, where he was a professor for twenty-three years. 

Laurence Hutchman has published ten books of poetry, co-edited Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada and edited a book of interviews called In the Writers’ Words: Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets. His most recent poetry books are Reading the Water, Personal Encounters and Two Maps of Emery. 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. 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.  His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Bangla and Chinese.   

He lives with his wife, the painter and poet Eva Kolacz-Hutchman in Oakville.