Katharine Coles’ seventh collection of poems Wayward, was published by Red Hen Press in June 2019; her memoir, Look Both Ways, was released in 2018 by Turtle Point Press. A happy contributor to Ascent since W. Scott Olsen’s first issue as Editor, Coles has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, the NSF, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.