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Koan Brink was born and raised in Minnesota. They received their B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Barnard College and their M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University, where they were a Teaching Fellow in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. From 2018-22, they served as the Art Writing Fellow at The Cooper Union.
Brink is currently a doctoral student in late medieval and early modern English literature at The University of Texas at Austin, where they serve as the Graduate Assistant Curator for Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center.
They are the author, most recently, of a chapbook of poems, Pale Interiors (The Song Cave, 2024) and an artist’s book, What Sleeps under Lacquer (NECK, 2022).
A lay ordained Soto Zen practitioner, Brink teaches classes regularly at the Austin Zen Center. They live in Austin, Texas.
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