Joanna Penn Cooper // Writer, Teacher, Editor.

Joanna Penn Cooper is the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014), a book of lyrical prose vignettes, andWhat Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press, 2014), a book of poetry. Her recent chapbooks are When We Were Fearsome (Ethel Zine Press) and Mud Woman, a collaboration with Rebecca Bratten Weiss (dancing girl press). 

Joanna holds a Ph.D. in English (American literature) from Temple University and an MFA in Poetry from New England College.  In her teaching career, she has held full-time visiting positions at Marquette University and Fordham University.  Joanna currently works as a freelance editor; serves as an editor at Trio House Press; co-edits the literary zine Ethel; and teaches online workshops in flash memoir and lyric essay for the journal Creative Nonfiction. She has been a frequent contributor to Good Letters, the online component of Image Journal, and her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day feature, as well as South Dakota Review, Zócalo Public Square, Open Letters Monthly, Poetry International, and other journals. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.