Brenda Coultas is the author of The Tatters, a collection of poetry, recently published by Wesleyan University Press.   Other books include The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008) and A Handmade Museum (2003) from Coffee House Press.  Her poetry can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, Witness and the Denver Quarterly. This year she is a mentor in the Emerge-Surface-Be program sponsored by The Poetry Project and The Jerome Foundation.