Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist. She is the author of an award-winning flash fiction collection, Know the Mother. Cooper’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Norton's Flash Fiction America 2023, Best Small Fictions 2018, Callaloo, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, and River Teeth, and she received an honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2019. Her first children’s book, Nothing Special, was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the ten best children’s books of 2022.
Workshop
The Good, The Bad, and the Fascinating: Creating Realistic Characters
Do you ever worry that the main characters in your work might be (check all that apply):___Boring ___Stereotypical ___Unbelievable ___Unlikeable (in an unlikeable way rather than agood way)? Do you wonder if a character might suffer from these qualities even when the character in the story is YOU? Prose writers (yes, that includes memoirists!), let’s work on character development to help commit the most compelling, dynamic, vulnerable, tragic, hilarious, and unforgettable people to the page.
