Hope Coulter

NEWS
Hope's debut poetry collection, The Wheel of Light, will be published in spring 2015 as part of the New Poets Series of BrickHouse Books.


UPCOMING

March 15, 9:45 a.m.: Choate Class, First United Methodist Church, 723 Center St., Little Rock

March 21, 3:00 p.m.: Signing, WordsWorth Books & Co., 5920 R St., Little Rock

April 23-26: Arkansas Literary Festival, RiverMarket, downtown Little Rock; detailed schedule TBA

Sept. 17, 6:00 p.m.: Big Rock Reading Series, Pulaski Technical College, 3000 Scenic Dr., North Little Rock--reading with Geoffrey Brock and Jo McDougall

Oct. 3: Poetry Day in Arkansas--Hope will be the featured speaker

Hope Coulter is a fiction writer and poet whose work has appeared in such journals as North American Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and Rattle. Winner of the 2014 Laman Library Writers Fellowship, she also won second place in Southwest Review’s Morton Marr poetry contest. She has been a semifinalist for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award as well as a finalist for the North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize. Other honors include two Pushcart nominations, Arkansas’s Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, and the Short Story Award of Louisiana Life magazine.

Hope was born in New Orleans and spent her early childhood in Little Rock before moving at age five to Alexandria, Louisiana, where she attended public schools. She received her A.B. from Harvard and her M.F.A. from Queens University of Charlotte. Her first two novels—The Errand of the Eye and Dry Bones—were published in 1988 and 1990 by August House Publishers, and her children’s picture book, Uncle Chuck’s Truck, came out in 1993 from Bradbury Press.

Since 1993 Hope has taught creative writing at Hendrix College, where she currently serves as Director of the Hendrix-Murphy Programs in Literature & Language. She lives in Little Rock with her husband, the writer Mel White.

Hope read on Tues., July 8, at 7:00 p.m. as part of the Laman Library's Meet the Author series.

Hope accepts the $10,000 Laman Library Writers Fellowship, Jan. 10, 2014.--l-r: John Deering, editorial cartoonist, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Dan Noble, public relations manager, Laman Library; Jeff Baskin, director, Laman Library