Cory Hutchinson-Reuss

Poetry Reader

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss grew up in Arkansas, earned her PhD in English from the University of Iowa, and now lives and writes in Iowa City. Her poems have appeared in Timber, Slice, The Offing, Crazyhorse, the Missouri Review online, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2021 Levis Prize from Four Way Books and the 2022 Orison Prize in Poetry for her manuscript The Way a Koan is an Oak, and a chapbook of poems and visual art made in collaboration with Giselle Simón is forthcoming from PromptPress. She has participated in the Writers Workshop at Oakdale Prison, and she currently serves as an Advisory Council member for the non-profit Iowa City Poetry.