Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Chicago. For many years, Carruth lived in Johnson, Vermont. Carruth has been writing for 60 years and taught at Syracuse University, in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, where he taught and mentored many younger poets, including Brooks Haxton and Allen Hoey. He resides with his wife, poet Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth near the small central New York village of Munnsville. His son David lives nearby.

Carruth is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, 4 books of literary criticism, essays, a novel and two poetry anthologies. He has served as editor of Poetry magazine, as poetry editor of Harper's, and for 20 years as the advisory editor of The Hudson Review. He has received fellowships from the Bollingen and Guggenheim Foundations and the NEA. He has been presented numerous awards including the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the 1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Vermont Governor's Medal and the Whiting Award.

In 1992 he was awarded the National Book Critics' Circle Award for his Collected Shorter Poems and in 1997 the National Book Award in poetry for his 1996 book Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey. Shortly after the debut of Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, he also won the $50,000 Lannan Literary Award. Recent titles include the 2001 publication of poems in Doctor Jazz and a 70-minute audio CD of Mr. Carruth reading selections from Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, and Collected Shorter Poems.

Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth's poems are informed by his political radicalism and sense of cultural responsibility. Many of Carruth's best-known poems are about the people and places of northern Vermont, as well as rural poverty and hardship. Perhaps his most famous poem is Emergency Haying.

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