Herman Sutter

Herman Sutter (award winning poet and volunteer hospital chaplain) is the author of Stations (Wiseblood Books), and The World Before Grace (Wings Press). His writing appears in: Saint Anthony Messenger, Cider Press Review, The Ekphrastic Review, The Perch, Iris, tejascovido, The Langdon Review, Benedict XVI Institute, Touchstone, i.e., The English Review, The Merton Journal, blonde on blonde, as well as the anthologies: Texas Poetry Calendar (2021) & By the Light of a Neon Moon (Madville Press, 2019). His narrative poem Constance, received the Innisfree prize for Poetry, and The World Before Grace, a poem for voices (about a survivor of the Bataan Death March), was honored by the Texas Playwrights Festival. His recent manuscript A Theology of Need was long listed for the Sexton prize.

He is also the author of the blog: The World Before Grace (and after) in which he contemplates the sacred he paradox of finding grace through the loss of self.

If you would like to purchase an autographed copy of The World Before Grace chapbook ($10), please contact me: hermansutter5@gmail.com