Colette Cosner is a recipient of the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize from Hunger Mountain Review and her work has appeared in publications such as Poetry Northwest, The Normal School, Pacifica Literary Review, Peatsmoke Journal, Pinch, Meridian, Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology and elsewhere.
Originally from Massachusetts, Colette currently lives in Seattle, WA, where she works for her local health department. She holds degrees from Guilford College (BA, Spanish Language and Literature) and the University of Washington (MA, Communication in Digital Media). She is currently an artist-in-residence with Casa Lu in Mexico City, working on her first chapbook.
Publications
Online Poems
- “Someone’s lunch,” issue #27 (Spring 2023) of Hunger Mountain Review. Winner of the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
- "Certain Creaks" Meridian #47, August 2023
- “Only boats” The Normal School, October 2021
- “Or the whale” Peatsmoke Journal, Spring 2021
- “Story goes” Peatsmoke Journal, Spring 2021
- “Jesus year” Atlas and Alice, September 2021
- “To speak of” Pacifica, Issue 16.1, 2019
- Pictures of Poets audio recordings of “Ours Poetica” and “Uncalled for”
Print Poems
- “Middle Distance,” The Pinch #44.2, Fall 2024
- “No hands,” Poetry Northwest, Winter and Spring 2021
- “Uncalled for,” Aurora: The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology, January 2020
- “Ours poetica,” Our Poetica: A testament to the shared uniqueness of the poetic experience, Cathexis Northwest Press 2019
- “Estranged,” Cascadia Rising Review, 2019