Katharine Coles
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Katharine Coles(born ) is an American poet and educator. She served from 2006-2012 as Utah's third poet laureate and currently serves as the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute and the co-director of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.
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Life
Coles earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington. She later earned a master's degree from the University of Houston and her Ph.D from the University of Utah.
Awards and honors
Coles received the PEN New Writer’s Award in 1992. Her 2001 poetry collection, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, received the Utah Book Award. In 2012, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.
Selected works
Novels
- The Measurable World, 1995
- Fire Season, 2005
Poetry
- The One Right Touch, 1992
- The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, 2001
- Fault, 2008
- The Earth is Not Flat, 2013
