#221: Katy Bowser Hutson: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer

In this episode we talk with Katy Bowser Hutson and her recent book Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer. She talks about her jouney through her fight with breast cancer. Thorough poetry and prose witha realness of someone who has literally been ravaged by cancer but somehow was and now is able to fight through even it was laying down. 

Katy Bowser Hutson is a writer and songwriter. She is the author of Now I Lay Me Down to Fight (IVP) and the coauthor of Little Prayers for Ordinary Day (IVP Kids). She’s also a contributing to projects like It Was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God and Wild Things and Castles in the Sky (Square Halo Press).

Katy is a creator/member of the children's band Rain for Roots. She is co-creator of kid’s jazz outfit Coal Train Railroad. She’s also a founding member of Rain for Roots. Katy and her husband, musician and producer Kenny Hutson, have also created a musical project or two along the way, as well as contributing to various and sundry other musical endeavors. Because it’s Nashville.

Katy also speaks at conferences and event and consults on endeavors in faith and art.

She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband Kenny, their two children, and some chickens, where she has built a rather wonky but serviceable labyrinth in her backyard and hosts many deer and fireflies.