Brenda Coultas

Brenda Coultas is an American poet.

Life
She was raised in Indiana, often working odd jobs such as welding.

She graduated from Naropa University, studying with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. Coultas also taught at Naropa University.

She moved to New York City in 1994. With Eleni Sikelianos, she worked at the Poetry Project in NYC, edited the Poetry Project Newsletter.

In 2003, she was a visiting poet at Long Island University. She lives in the Bowery.

Her work has also been published Brooklyn Rail, Trickhouse, the Denver Review, and in two collections: An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman 1996), and conjunctions 35'' "American Poetry: States of the Art" (Fall 2000).

Awards

 * 2004 Norma Farber First Book Award, A Handmade Museum
 * Greenwald grant from the Academy of American Poets
 * 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
 * Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist-in-residence.