ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judith Cooper lives and works in Chicago. Her short stories have appeared in Burrow Press Review, The Normal School, Shenandoah, New Stories from the Midwest, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Fantasy, and was a finalist for both the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and the Glimmer Train Family Matters contests. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship and several other awards. Her work has been supported by residencies at Ragdale, Hambidge, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland.
In her youth she was a chair caner, belly dancer, computer programmer, book store cashier, aid worker in the Philadelphia projects, medical coder, archaeological excavator, and a lab tech. Now that she's all grown up, she has a more serious job.
Born in Philadelphia, she's lived in Baltimore, Cleveland, London, Cleveland again, Philadelphia, Leeds, Philadelphia again, Iowa City, and finally, Chicago.
That's her story, and she's sticking to it.
In her youth she was a chair caner, belly dancer, computer programmer, book store cashier, aid worker in the Philadelphia projects, medical coder, archaeological excavator, and a lab tech. Now that she's all grown up, she has a more serious job.
Born in Philadelphia, she's lived in Baltimore, Cleveland, London, Cleveland again, Philadelphia, Leeds, Philadelphia again, Iowa City, and finally, Chicago.
That's her story, and she's sticking to it.
