Joanna Penn Cooper

Living and Writing in Durham, NC

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, and What Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press, 2014), a book of poetry.  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 an editor and teaches a 6-week community workshop on memoir writing in Durham, NC.