Hope Coulter

is a novelist and poet whose work has appeared in such journals as New Delta Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Slant, and Rattle. She has been a Pushcart nominee (2008), a runner-up for Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editors’ Prize and New Delta Review’s Matt Clark Poetry Prize (2007), a finalist in the Great American Novel Contest (2002), and a semifinalist in various other writing prizes of national stature, including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest (2008). Other honors include Arkansas’s Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, the Short Story Award of Louisiana Life magazine, and a residency at the Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony.

Hope was born in New Orleans and spent her early childhood in Little Rock, then moved at age five to Alexandria, Louisiana, where she attended public schools. She received her A.B. from Harvard and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. She lives in Little Rock and teaches at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.

NEWS!

Catch Hope at the Arkansas Literary Festival:
--Thurs., April 12, 11:00-12:00 noon, Reading at Pulaski Tech (North Little Rock) with Tyrone Jaeger, John Bensko, and Stephanie Vanderslice; 12:30-1:30, panel discussion on place in poetry and fiction

--Sat., April 14, around 8:30 p.m.--Hope will be reading at Pub or Perish, sponsored by Arkansas Times; Lulav's, 6th Street

Hope's piece "The Lake" was named one of the Top Tales of the Year by the Tales from the South series.

Her poem "Moon Seen Through a Telescope" has been named a finalist for the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize, and will be published in the spring issue.

Another poem, "Breath," appears in the new issue of The Carolina Quarterly.

Hope will read her short story "The Hurricane" at the International Conference on the Short Story, to be held in North Little Rock on June 27-30, 2012. Bharati Mukherjee, Moira Crone, and Robert Olen Butler are among the other writers who will appear.