Sandra Lynn Hutchison serves as editor-in-chief of e*lix*ir (https://www.elixir-journal.org), an online journal she founded in 2015 to showcase art that celebrates the power of spirit. She is the author of a memoir, Chinese Brushstrokes (Turnstone Press), numerous essays, as well as two books of poetry: The Art of Nesting (GR Books) and a forthcoming volume, The Beautiful Foolishness of Things, which was a finalist for the Poet’s Corner Chapbook Contest. Her translation with Shahin Mowzoon of Mahvash Sabet’s second volume of prison poems, A Tale of Love, with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi, was published by GR Books in June 2024. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Chinese Pen: Western Ink, the Oxford anthology of stories about China. She is also the author of various articles relating to the Baha’i Faith and its teachings.
Hutchison holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Toronto and has been the recipient of various academic and literary awards, including a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and an Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize. She lives in Orono, Maine, where she teaches scriptural exegesis and mentors writers in courses in creative writing she offers through the Wilmette Institute. She also serves as faculty for the BIHE (Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education), where she teaches journalism, essay writing, and storytelling to Bahai youth who are banned by the government from attending public universities.
