Chris Coulson's first novel was Nothing Normal in Cork,The Midwest Hotel was his first collection of poetry, followed by Go with the Floe and A Bottomless Cup of Midnight Oil , all in his new and ongoing "Free perVerse" genre. Out of the smoky haze of this production frenzy now comes another novel,
Red Jumbo, and his first children's book--Babies on the Run!--will be coming down the mountain soon.
And then, whatever comes next. Who knows what, but it's coming.
Chris Coulson had a lot of jobs before writing these books; golf caddy at 13, bartender (older than 13), dishwasher, busboy, waiter; hospital orderly, morgue attendant and obituary reporter (simultaneously, all three—had them coming and going!), newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, a Kansas City art magazine columnist and editor-in-chief, Cadillac salesman for three months (sold one used Chevrolet), worker in a cake decorating machine factory, movie set painter (first job, for the film Kansas City, directed by the late and great Robert Altman) and set dresser, art department leadman, film actor and star of In the Land of Milk and Money, which toured worldwide film festivals just after the turn of the century.
But he's always carried a 50¢ Bic Pen in his pocket. He's always writing. He even writes in his sleep. Interesting sheets.
On the scholastic front, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City; a double major, english literature and fine arts. A fun double major to do, his heart was in it, but because he was bartending at night at the nearby Country Club Plaza, his grade point average was a little cubist.
Other activities informing and enriching Coulson's writing include a half-year homeless adventure
in Boston in 1984-85, and some light jail time here and there (nothing violent or arrogant, only to do with spirit, or spirits), including the night of a spectacular (comical to the police officers on-scene) drunken car crash and splash into the Meyers Circle Fountain, inside a traffic rotary along an elegant parkway in Kansas City. At the time, Coulson knew these experiences would somehow feed the sensitivity, not to mention the oeuvre.
He has lived in London, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Wyoming (The Hotel Townsend in Casper), Boston, Los Angeles, Durham, North Carolina, and is now in the western shade of the Rocky Mountains, down in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Where he likes it best, in the wide, wild west.
And yet, like Red Jumbo, Chris Coulson is always ready to leave town.
Red Jumbo, and his first children's book--Babies on the Run!--will be coming down the mountain soon.
And then, whatever comes next. Who knows what, but it's coming.
Chris Coulson had a lot of jobs before writing these books; golf caddy at 13, bartender (older than 13), dishwasher, busboy, waiter; hospital orderly, morgue attendant and obituary reporter (simultaneously, all three—had them coming and going!), newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, a Kansas City art magazine columnist and editor-in-chief, Cadillac salesman for three months (sold one used Chevrolet), worker in a cake decorating machine factory, movie set painter (first job, for the film Kansas City, directed by the late and great Robert Altman) and set dresser, art department leadman, film actor and star of In the Land of Milk and Money, which toured worldwide film festivals just after the turn of the century.
But he's always carried a 50¢ Bic Pen in his pocket. He's always writing. He even writes in his sleep. Interesting sheets.
On the scholastic front, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City; a double major, english literature and fine arts. A fun double major to do, his heart was in it, but because he was bartending at night at the nearby Country Club Plaza, his grade point average was a little cubist.
Other activities informing and enriching Coulson's writing include a half-year homeless adventure
in Boston in 1984-85, and some light jail time here and there (nothing violent or arrogant, only to do with spirit, or spirits), including the night of a spectacular (comical to the police officers on-scene) drunken car crash and splash into the Meyers Circle Fountain, inside a traffic rotary along an elegant parkway in Kansas City. At the time, Coulson knew these experiences would somehow feed the sensitivity, not to mention the oeuvre.
He has lived in London, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Wyoming (The Hotel Townsend in Casper), Boston, Los Angeles, Durham, North Carolina, and is now in the western shade of the Rocky Mountains, down in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Where he likes it best, in the wide, wild west.
And yet, like Red Jumbo, Chris Coulson is always ready to leave town.