Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey, BOA Editions, 2004Cold Comfort: Life on the Top of the Map, University of Minnesota Press, 1998The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems, BOA Editions, 1993My Father's War and Other Stories, Viking, 1991, University of Minnesota Press, 2000Pine Creek Parish Hall and Other Poems, Sandhills Press, 1985Cedarhome, BOA Editions, 1977

Sutter was an essayist for the "Voices from the Heartland" series on Minnesota Public Radio from 1991-1997. He has also published numerous poems, stories, and essays in such magazines and anthologies as The North American Review, Poetry, Live Music, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Minnesota Monthly.

Duluth Poet Laureate, 2006George Morrison Artist Award, 2005Minnesota Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction, 1999Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, 1999Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant (Sweden), 1997Individual Artist Fellowship, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, 1996, 2001Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, 1994Minnesota Book Award Fiction, 1992Individual Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation, 1989Loft McKnight Award in Poetry, 1987Bassine Citation from The Academy of American Poets, 1986

Barton Sutter is a Lutheran preacher's son and was raised in a large rural family. He acquired his B.A. in Language Arts from Southwest State University in 1972. He then received his M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1975. He moved to Duluth, MN in the 1980s where he continued publishing and also began work as an English professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He now works as a senior lecturer in writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He also occasionally appears as half of the artistic duo The Sutter Brothers which also includes his brother, Ross Sutter, an acclaimed folk musician. He continues to live in Duluth with his wife and two daughters.