Nutter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and graduated from Vestavia Hills High School in 1988 and from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1993.
In March, 2009 his multi-media creativity workbook, Ignite The Genius Within,[6] co-authored with EMDR therapist Dr. Christine Ranck, was published by Penguin/Dutton.
In 2008 Nutter started a New York-based media consulting business handling the public relations for high-profile businesses such as Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv (which designed the logos for Chase bank, NBC, PBS, Mobil Oil and Showtime) and the multi-media series Congo Tales, which appeared on the front page of the New York Times International Edition.
He has also given television interviews on the subject,[7] and written related stories for the Huffington Post about Chelsea's commercial and cultural life vanishing as a result of the 4 million tourists a year who descend on the neighborhood.
In 2012 Nutter planted a story on Vanishing New York about an anonymous Chelsea resident who had put up flyers in the West 20s asking High Line tourists to use manners.