Brenda Coultas, Deborah Richards, and Kathy Lou Schultz - A digital recording of three contemporary women writers. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

Before becoming a poet, Brenda Coultas was a farmer, a carny, a taffy maker, a park ranger, a waitress in a disco ballroom, and the second woman welder in Firestone Steel1s history. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Conjunctions, Epoch, Fence, and Open City. She lives one block from the Bowery in New York City. Deborah Richards is a black Londoner currently residing in Philadelphia. Her work has appreared in Chain, HOW2, XCP, Nocturnes, and is forthcoming in Callaloo. Her first book of poetry, Last One Out, is forthcoming from Subpress. Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of three collections of poetry and experimental prose: Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002), Genealogy (a+ bend press, 1999), and Re dress (San Francisco State University, 1994). Re dress was selected by Forrest Gander for the Michael Rubin Award. Kathy Lou received her MFA in poetry and American literature from San Francisco State University, and is currently a third-year doctoral student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-edits the literary arts journal Lipstick Eleven. Visit her homepage at: http://www.english.upenn.edu. For further information and recordings of the event on the PennSound website, click here. Writers House Webcast Archive