B. Hutton was born in 1953 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan for the first 14 years of his life. He lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, both rural and coastal Mississippi, and New Orleans before finally making his way to Anchorage, Alaska in 1987.

During his graduate work, a long-standing interest in writing, acting, cartooning, and other creative endeavors, came together with his exposure to learning theory and he first developed the Creative Expression Workshop in 1980, which he continues to facilitate in various forms. Through a fast-paced run of hands-on multi-media activities, the workshop stresses the availability of the creative impulse to the ‘non-artist’, the cross-germination inherent in exposure to multiple mediums, and the neccessary focus on process over product in certain stages of creativity development.

Upon arrival in Anchorage, he found a welcoming community of artists at the Visual Art Center, and began showing, first, his cartoons, then his found object constructions in a series of group and solo shows in Anchorage between 1988 and 1994 while continuing his ‘day job’ as a therapist.

Retiring from the mental health field in 1993, he spent seven months teaching English in Japan and began writing a regular column ‘Letters From Japan’ for the Anchorage By-Pass. Returning from Japan, he continued writing off and on for the ‘By-Pass’, which eventually became the Anchorage Press, and began working with the writer’s group, Loose Affiliation, to develop venues for publication and performance readings, including the Alaskan anthology ‘North Of Eden’ and the ‘Cyrano’s Series’, as well as his own various solo performances.

Though in recent years, his literary and organizational activities have taken up the bulk of his time and energies, he continues to attempt to integrate visual arts into the mix, from co-creating a papier mache’ taxi cab with good friend and artist Buzz Schwall for his ‘Taxi Tales’ readings, to creating a mural for the Anchorage Covenant House, and hosting the Annual April Fool’s Day Open Mic and Etch-A-Sketch-Off.

Current projects include working with Buzz Schwall's Buzz-O-Plex Productions to develop a series of 'odd duck' performance events, developing a Workshop Consortium, seeking to link creative workshop presenters with venues across the state of Alaska, and hosting and producing ‘The Radio Show’, a Spoken Word and Radio Theater program for KNBA 90.3 FM Anchorage.

Though primarilly a writer/performer, educator, and organizer of Spoken Word events at this point, he has had a varied career, from family therapist to taxi driver, nude artist’s model to shopping mall Santa. Beyond an occasional class in the course of obtaining a Master’s degree in counseling, he is not formally schooled in the arts.