Andrew Hudgins was born a military brat in Fort Hood, Texas, in 1951, moving to New Mexico, Ohio, and England before elementary school in North Carolina and California. His family lived for one year outside Paris before his father was transferred to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1966, the year after the Selma-to-Montgomery march. He has attended Huntingdon College, the University of Alabama, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Stanford University. His poetry, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. His family lives in Columbus, Ohio, where Hudgins teaches at The Ohio State University, and in Sewanee, Tennessee. |