Kristi Coulter is an acclaimed memoirist, essayist, and fiction writer. Her 2018 debut memoir Nothing Good Can Come from This (MCD Books x FSG Originals) was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. In September 2023, MCD Books will publish Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, a memoir about work, gender, and Coulter’s twelve-year stint as an executive at Amazon. Early readers have called it “a brilliant and surprisingly moving tour of the outer reaches of corporate madness” (Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma); “the most vivid account yet of Amazon’s chaotic, mercurial, dignity-crushing office culture” (Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store); and “a unique and brilliant book—both a hilarious memoir of one woman’s journey through the extremes of corporate America, and a poignant and arresting account of what modern work culture can do to the soul” (Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks).
Coulter’s essays and fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, New York Magazine, Elle, Glamour, The Mississippi Review, DAME, The Believer, Alaska Quarterly, Columbia Journal, The Awl, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she held the Stephen Farrar and Roy Cowden Fellowships and won the Hopwood Award; she is also the recipient of residencies at Ragdale Foundation and The Mineral School. Coulter has taught writing and literature at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington Continuum College, and currently teaches at Seattle’s Hugo House.
Coulter was raised in South Florida and graduated from New College of Florida. She is a former content director at the All Music Guide, and held leadership roles in Amazon’s retail, publishing, and grocery divisions. She now writes full time, and lives with her husband and their golden retriever in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Contacts
Publicity: Claire Tobin, claire.tobin@fsgbooks.com or Sarita Varma, sarita.varma@fsgbooks.com
Literary agent: Sarah Burnes at The Genert Company, info@thegernertco.com
Speaking/teaching engagements, album recommendations, praise: Kristi.c.coulter@gmail.com