ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Fantasy, Judith Cooper’s stories and essays have appeared in New Stories from the Midwest, Pleiades, Redux, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Hypertext Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. Her work has been a finalist for the Masters Review Chapbook Contest, the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, the Glimmer Train Family Matters and Fiction Open contests, and was also a semifinalist for the Black River Spring Chapbook Competition. She is the recipient of several Illinois Arts Council and City of Chicago fellowships and grants. Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies at Ragdale, The Hambidge Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, and Carraig-na-gcat in West Cork, Ireland. She lives in Chicago and is currently working on a short story collection, a novel, and a collection of essays about her family.
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.