About
monét cooper is a poet, teacher-educator, and doctoral candidate from the land of the Mvskoke (Georgia) studying in the University of Michigan’s Joint Program in English and Education. She comes to the University of Michigan after serving students and families in secondary English classrooms in DC, Maryland, and Virginia (the DMV). She uses Black Feminist poetics of interiority, ethnography, and storytelling to learn about Black & Brown students' youth literacies as culture work in their learning spaces from a place of possibility. She is also interested in how Black school children's out-of-school literacy practices make space for pleasure and self-regard during and after segregation. With her friend and fellow educator Erin Thesing, monét co-hosts Dancing on Desks, a podcast that celebrates justice-full, liberatory, and abolitionist education. Listen wherever you find your favorite music and podcasts. She is an Imagining America PAGE Fellow, a recipient of the CCCC 2023 Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award, and the 2021 Hurston-Wright Foundation College Poetry Award. monét enjoys baking German chocolate cake, gazing at the night sky, porch sits, and naps. And, more than anything she misses laughing with her grandma.
