Katharine Coles is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Ghost Apples (forthcoming from Red Hen Press, 2023) and Wayward (Red Hen Press, 2019). She is also the author of the essay collection, The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing (Turtle Point Press, 2021), and the memoir, Look Both Ways (Turtle Point Press, 2018). She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is a distinguished professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah.