CONWAY, Ark. (February 16, 2016) — The Hendrix College English department creative writing faculty will read from their new books on March 1, 2016. Hope Coulter, Jessica Jacobs, and Tyrone Jaeger will read from and discuss their work in Reves Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. This
event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing in Trieschmann Gallery.
Director of the Hendrix-Murphy programs and creative writing instructor Hope Coulter is a fiction writer and poet whose poetry collection, The Wheel of Light, was released in spring 2015 as part of the New Poets Series of BrickHouse Press. 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. Coulter grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana, and earned her A.B. at Harvard University and her M.F.A. at Queens University of Charlotte. She has taught creative writing at Hendrix since 1993 in addition to her new role as the Hendrix-Murphy programs director.
Hendrix-Murphy Writer in Residence Jessica Jacobs is the author of Pelvis with Distance: A Biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe(White Pine Press, 2015), winner of the 2015 New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and an Over the Rainbow selection by the American Library Association. Jacobs
holds an M.F.A. from Purdue University, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of Sycamore Review, and a B.A. from Smith College. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared widely in publications including Beloit Poetry Journal, The
Missouri Review, Rattle, The Oxford American, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. An avid long-distance runner, Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, editor, and professor, and now serves as faculty at Writing
Workshops in Greece and as the 2016 Hendrix-Murphy Writer in Residence at Hendrix College.
Director of the Creative Writing Program and Associate Professor of English Tyrone Jaeger is the author of the story collection So Many True Believers (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2016) and the cross-genre novella The Runaway Note. His first novel, Radio Eldorado, is
forthcoming with Queen’s Ferry Press in 2017. His work has appeared in The Oxford
American, Southern Humanities Review,The Literary Review, descant, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award. Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains, he earned a B.A.
from Rollins College and received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This event is sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language, which are designed to enhance and enrich the study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College. For more information about this and future events, please contact Henryetta Vanaman, 501-450-4597 or
vanaman@hendrix.edu.