Raymond Hutson received his MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College at Charlotte in 2006. His short stories and poems have appeared in Red Fez, Open Road Review, Cirque-- Journal of Alaska and the Pacific Rim, Short Story America Anthology, and Whitefish Review. His novel, Topeka, ma’shuge, was released through Amazon in 2014, and won the Next Generation Indie Grand Prize Award for Fiction for 2015. His second novel, Finding Sgt. Kent, won a silver IP medal for military fiction in 2019.
Raymond also holds degrees in Psychology and Biology, and a Doctorate of Medicine. He collects stereo-views, studies history, and lives on a small farm with his wife in the Pacific Northwest United States, where he writes, practices medicine and raises goats.