Harvey Mudd

American

BiographyHarvey Mudd was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and received his education at The Thacher School and Ameherst College. After a year at Amherst, Mudd dropped out and moved to New York City, traveling to Spain and the Middle East before returning to the United Sates in 1961, at which time he attended the New School for Social Research, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1964. He then served I the US Army until his discharge in 1967, when he moved to Northern New Mexico.
In 1976, Mudd published his first four books of poems. The Plain of Smokes (1982) was short listed for the Los Angeles Times poetry prize.
Mudd continued to live in New Mexico from 1964-1988, during which he directed an environmental lobbying organization out of Santa Fe, NM, volunteered with the Sierra Club Foundation, and ran an art gallery and a movie theater in Taos. He served on the New Mexico Arts Commission in the early 1980s.
In 1988, Mudd moved to Vermont, then to New York City in 1994. Mudd continues to write poetry and paint, and he splits his time between southern France, Vermont, and New York City.

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