Katharine Coles Photo by Francois Camoin

Katharine Coles’ fourth collection of poems, Fault, was published by Red Hen Press in 2008.  Previous books include three poetry collections, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch, and two novels, Fire Season and The Measurable World.  An ongoing collaboration with visual artist Maureen O’Hara Ure has resulted in several joint installations and an artist’s book, Swoon.  Her commissioned works include Passages, a sequence of poems permanently installed in Salt Lake City at the Gateway’s Passages Park, for which Coles also served on the design team; and “The Numbers,” permanently installed as part of Anna Campbell Bliss’s Numbers and Measure in the Leroy Cowles Mathematics Building at the University of Utah.  This summer, she finished Burnt Letters, a nonfiction book about her grandparents.  She is a professor in the English Department at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and currently directs the Creative Writing Program as well as, with co-director Fred Adler, the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, which she founded.  In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Poet Laureate of Utah.

Curriculum Vitae (2006)

Poem by Katharine Coles

Numbers