You walk into the coffeehouse and pick a seat beside the thin woman whose beauty is coiled into tight vines of hair. Never seen her here before, you think as you slide into the bench beside her, careful not to get caught looking in her direction. (More …)
Desiree Cooper
Desiree Cooper is a former attorney, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and Detroit community activist. A 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, her fiction and poetry have appeared in Callaloo, Detroit Noir, Best African American Fiction 2010 and Tidal Basin Review, among other online and print publications. Her first collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, (Wayne State University Press, 2016), uses the compressed medium of flash fiction to dive unflinchingly into the intersection of racism and sexism. Cooper was a founding board member of Cave Canem, a national residency for emerging black poets. She is currently a Kimbilio Fellow, a national residency for African American fiction writers.