Given what our species has wrought on the planet, hurricanes are not the fodder of escapism. However, if you're up for reading about an invented hurricane rather than obsessively refreshing your browser again on the latest storm's trajectory, here's my story "The Hurricane" from Terrain.org.
HOPE COULTER’s short story collection Rumors of Peace is forthcoming this fall from Cornerstone Press. Her poetry collection The Wheel of Light was published in 2015 by BrickHouse Books, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Terrain, Southwest Review, Rattle, and Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment. Awards for her writing include Meringoff Awards in nonfiction and poetry, five Pushcart nominations, and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence.
Hope is a Louisiana native who earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She recently retired from Hendrix College, where for many years she taught English and creative writing and directed the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language. She lives in Little Rock.
