KATHARINE COLES

Katharine Coles's fourteen books include her new collection of poems TIME AND CHANCE (Turtle Point Press, 2025); GHOST APPLES (Red Hen Press, 2023); a collection of essays, THE STRANGER I BECOME: ON WALKING, LOOKING, AND WRITING; and her memoir, LOOK BOTH WAYS (both from Turtle Point Press).. She has served as Poet Laureate of the State of Utah, Poet-in-Residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Salt Lake Public Library for the Poets House FIELD WORK program, the Inaugural Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation, and the Inaugural Director and now co-Director of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.  She has received grants and awards from the US Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities,, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her writing has been translated into Italian, German, Dutch, and Spanish. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.