Joyce SutphenJoyce Sutphen was raised on a farm in Stearns County, Minnesota. She is a professor emeritus of English at Gustavus Adolphus College and served as Minnesota's poet laureate from 2011 to 2021. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, among them i>That Other Life, This Long Winter, and Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems. Read More Read Less