Rushing Into the Music by Heather Hutcheson

Background photo: Thibault Trillet/Pexels, CC0.
Manipulation and design layout: Elizabeth Stark

A professor of English at Cosumnes River College, in Sacramento, Heather Hutcheson is the founding editor of the Cosumnes River Journal (crc-ljsubmit@crc.losrios.edu). She organizes an annual senior and student memoir conference, “Our Life Stories.” During the semester, she promotes a language exchange between day laborers and community college students in a Home Depot parking lot, and she spends summers teaching English with a microfinance program in Oaxaca, Mexico. She lives with her husband and their two cats: Mr. Right and Stripes.  A former editor of Poetry Now, she has worked as a journalist for The Desert Sentinel and The Atascadero News. She has been published in numerous publications, including theAmerican Journal of Public Health. She blogs at shewhodaresnothing.wordpress.com.

One-man band.

The author’s Oaxacan students on break.

Traditional Oaxacan dancers.

Tlacoahuaya, the town in which the author teaches.

 

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