Hello. I’m Coty. I write poems and short stories and other things. I’m figuring life out.
Coty Poynter is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland. His work has been published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Equinox, LIGEIA, Maudlin House, and various other outlets. His second poetry collection, Delirium: Poems, was published in October 2018 by Bowen Press. He was the creative nonfiction editor at Mud Season Review, an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont. He was a frequent contributor to Write or Die Magazine, a digital space for writers who seek creative and literary connections, where he wrote essays about writing and poetry and did the occasional interview. In 2023, he graduated from Towson University with a Master of Science in Professional Writing, with a concentration on creative writing. He was a recipient of the spring 2022 Good Contrivance Farm Fellowship, the 2022-2023 State of Maryland Delegate Scholarship, and the 2022 NY State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship.