

July 2026 Feature: Desiree Cooper
Desiree Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist, award-winning author, and a member of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective. Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, former attorney, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, and editor of the groundbreaking 2026 anthology, Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors. Her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, won numerous awards, including the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award. Cooper’s fi










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