Katharine Coles' third collection of poems, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, was released in August 2001 by the University of Nevada Press, which also published her second collection, A History of the Garden, and her first novel, The Measurable World, in 1995. Among her grants and awards are a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Writer's Fellowship for poetry, an NEA New Forms Project Grant for fiction, a PEN Discovery Award, and the Salt Lake City's Mayor's Award for the Arts, which recognizes artistic achievement and community service. Her poems and stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Georgia Review, North American Review, Poetry, Ascent, Antioch Review, Quarterly West, and many other journals, as well as in such anthologies as The Sacred Place, A Year in Place, and The Muse Strikes Back. She is on the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Utah.