Katharine Coles
Professor, English
English
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 3417 LNCO
Office Hours: M 3-4
Office Phone: (801) 581-7868
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>> Curriculum Vitae
My Website: www.scienceandliterature.org
Degrees:
1990 PhD English Literature and Creative Writing University of Utah
1983 MA English Literature and Creative Writing University of Houston
1981 BA English Literature University of Washington
Katharine Coles' books include the novels FIRE SEASON and THE MEASURABLE WORLD and four collections of poems, FAULT, THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION, A HISTORY OF THE GARDEN, and THE ONE RIGHT TOUCH. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in THE PARIS REVIEW, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE KENYON REVIEW, and POETRY, among many other journals. Her poems have been included in numerous public arts projects, including Salt Lake City's Passages Park, for which she served on the design team; and NUMBERS AND MEASURES (www.asci.org/digital2001/bliss/bliss.htm), an installation by Anna Campbell Bliss in the Leroy Cowles Mathematics Building at the University of Utah. Her ongoing collaboration with visual artist Maureen O?Hara Ure (www.art.utah.edu/arthome) has resulted in two major installations and an artist's book, SWOON. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other organizations. She is on the faculty of the English Department at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and, with mathematician and biologist Fred Adler (www.math.utah.edu/~adler), co-directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature (www.scienceandliterature.org), which she originated in 2001. She has recently finished BURNT LETTERS, a nonfiction book about her grandfather, a petroleum geologist and explorer from 1926 until the early sixties, and her adventurous grandmother. This project has taken her up the Amazon and to Havana, Indonesia, and Singapore; a long chapter, "Venezuela Triangle," was published in ASCENT in Spring 2008. In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Utah's Poet Laureate. In addition to her position at the University of Utah, she is Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.
Selected Publications:
FAULT (poems)
(Book), 2008
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION (poems)
(Book), 2001
A HISTORY OF THE GARDEN (poems)
(Book), 1997
THE MEASURABLE WORLD (novel)
(Book), 1995
THE ONE RIGHT TOUCH (poems)
(Book), 1992
FIRE SEASON (novel)
(Novel), 2005
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
Creative Writing/Poetry (2); Science and Literature; Creative Writing/Fiction; Creative Writing/Nonfiction (2); Genre Studies (2)
Research Projects
New World Bestiary (poems)
Current Courses
ENGL 5050-1 Studies In Genre
Courses I Teach
ENGL 5020 Studies In Non-Fiction
ENGL 5050 Studies In Genre
ENGL 5520 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 7010 Non-Fiction Workshop
ENGL 7450 Narrative Theory & Practice
Awards
2006
Poet Laureate of Utah - Utah Arts Council
2004
Faculty Fellow Award - University of Utah
2003
Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship - University of Utah
2002
Utah Book Award - Utah Center for the Book
2001
University Research Council Grant - University of Utah
1998
University Research Council Grant - University of Utah
1991
New Forms Project Grant/Novel - National Endowment for the Arts
1990
Individual Writers Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts