P. J. Sutton is the author of Pocket Gospel, published by Sheep Meadow Press, and Burning My Birth Certificate, winner of the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Her poetry was featured in Scribner’s 25th Anniversary edition of BAP’s “The Best of the Best American Poetry” in 2013, as well as in BAP 2000, 2009, and 2017. Sutton’s novel excerpt won first place in a Glimmer Train Press contest and was published in 2010. She holds an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was the George Starbuck Creative Writing Scholarship/Fellowship winner. She taught Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania for several years and lectured at MIT in 2022 for their series, “The Pleasures of Poetry.” She is 1/4th Cherokee and grew up on Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation.
