Hope Coulter

is a novelist and poet whose work has appeared in such journals as New Delta Review, North American Review, The Carolina Quarterly, 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 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!

Hope's story "The Hurricane" has made landfall at Terrain, having placed third in their annual contest. Read it at the link to your right.

On February 12, Hope will read at Tales from the South as part of an evening focusing on "Shakespeare in the South." Proceeds will benefit the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. The show's at Starving Artist Cafe in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock. Doors open at 5:00; dinner and drinks are available before the readings begin at 7:00. Come hear what Hope, poet Greg Brownderville, and nonfiction writer Jay Jennings have to say about their relationship with the Bard. Tickets are selling fast but may still be available at the link to the right.