Kōan Brink, born and raised in Minnesota, received an MFA from Columbia University and also studied Buddhist texts and social ethics at Union Theological Seminary. They are the author of the chapbook The End of Lake Superior (above/ground, 2021) and the artist’s book What Sleeps under Lacquer (NECK Press, 2022). Brink teaches at The Cooper Union in New York City and lives in Austin, Texas.
Photograph by Augusta X. Thomson.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Split, an ipoem, in Spring 2023
- The Idea of Antarctica, poetry, in Winter 2021
- The End of Lake Superior, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2019–2020