David Cloutier grew up in New England. He pursued creative and cultural studies and graduated from Brown University with an M.A. in Creative Writing. Always a poet, he has worked as a teacher, literary publisher, arts council director, and festival producer in California, New Mexico, North Carolina and Rhode Island. Notably, he created and directed the Monterey World Music Festival (1997-2003), in an effort to expand global cultural awareness. He has translated poems by several 20th century French poets including Jean Laude and Claude Esteban. Additionally, in his search for poetic origins and consonances, he compiled several volumes of the oral poetry of the world. A seeker, sometimes finder, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Carolyn Burns, psychotherapist.
