His first book of poems, Saints and Strangers, was published in 1985 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Hudgins began publishing his work while still in graduate school. He joined the English department at the University of Cincinnati in 1985 and is now on the English faculty of Ohio State University. He then enrolled in the Writers’ Workshop program at the University of Iowa, from which he earned an MFA in 1983. Upon his return to Montgomery, he taught composition as an adjunct instructor at Auburn University at Montgomery. He then spent two years studying at Syracuse University in New York. To further his writing ambitions, Hudgins attended the University of Alabama, earning an MA in English in 1976. After graduating in 1974 with a BA in English and history from Huntingdon College, he taught for one year in the Montgomery public school system. He decided to become a writer, but, to please his parents who were concerned about his ability to support himself, he earned a teaching certificate while attending college. Although an average student, Hudgins read voraciously as a child. When he was in high school, his family made its last move, to Montgomery, Ala., where his father subsequently retired from the service. Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer, 2005, Alabama Writers’ Forum and Alabama Writers SymposiumĪndrew Hudgins was born into a military family and spent his early childhood moving from base to base.Alabama Author Award, Alabama Library Association, 1996, for The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood.

Hanes Award for Poetry, Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1995.

Alabama Author Award, Alabama Library Association, 1988, for Saints and Strangers.

Witter Bynner Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1988.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County: education.

Montgomery, Montgomery County: childhood residence, education, brief adult residence.

Andrew Hudgins (April 22, 1951–present) Other Names Used

After The Lost War by Andrew Hudgins