Joyce Sutphen
Glen Stubbe - Star Tribune
Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm in Stearns County, Minnesota. She is a professor emeritus of English at Gustavus Adolphus College and is Minnesota’s poet laureate.
She is the author of seven poetry collections, including Straight Out of View, Coming Back to the Body, and Naming the Stars, and is a coeditor of To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present.
Joyce Sutphen serves as the first Poet-In-Residence at Source Song Festival for our 2021 Festival.