Christine Coulson spent 25 years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and left the museum as Senior Writer in 2019. She started at The Met in 1991 as a summer intern in the European Paintings Department and returned in 1994 to start her first job at the museum after graduate school. During her tenure, she rose through the ranks of the museum, working in the Development Office, the Director’s Office, and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.
In 2017, The Met gave Coulson a yearlong sabbatical to write Metropolitan Stories, her bestselling 2019 novel about the museum, after she published this personal essay in The New York Times. During the pandemic, she also published this Lit Hub essay about The Met during lockdown.
Her acclaimed new novel, One Woman Show, was released in the US and UK in October 2023.
Coulson is also working on forthcoming collaborations with artist Ruan Hoffman and architect Elizabeth Roberts.
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