HOPE COULTER has taught English and creative writing at Hendrix since 1993. She also directs the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language.
Hope is a fiction writer and poet whose collection
The Wheel of Light
was released in spring 2015 as part of the New Poets Series of BrickHouse Books. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the 2014 Laman Library Writers Fellowship, two Pushcart nominations, Arkansas's Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, and the Short Story Award of Louisiana Life magazine. Her 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. She has published short stories, poems, and reviews in numerous journals, among them
Rattle, Louisiana Literature, Southwest Review, The Carolina Quarterly, North American Review,
and
Terrain.
Hope grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana, did her undergraduate work at Harvard University, and earned her MFA in the low-residency program at Queens University of Charlotte. She lives in Little Rock with her husband, nature writer Mel White, and their yellow lab mix, Josie. When she's not writing, teaching, or wrangling Murphy Scholar activities, Hope enjoys birding, swimming, and travel.