Katharine Coles is an American poet and educator.
She served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah's third poet laureate and currently serves as the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute and the co-director of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.
Coles earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington.
Her published works include the novels Fire Season and The Measurable World, and five collections of poems: Fault, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, The One Right Touch, and Flight.
Her 2001 poetry collection, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, received the Utah Book Award.