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(Author photo: Nick Vogelson) T COOPER is the author of the novels Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (Plume/Penguin paperback, 2007; Dutton hardcover, 2006), and Some of the Parts (Akashic Books, 2002), as well as co-editor of an anthology of original stories entitled A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing (Akashic, 2006). T Cooper was recently awarded residencies to The Millay Colony and Ledig House International, has twice been a fellow of The MacDowell Colony, and was just awarded a NewNowNext Award in 2008. In 2004 T was a finalist for the Koret Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award as well as writer-in-residence at The Bronx Academy of Letters. T was born and raised in Los Angeles, attended Middlebury College in Vermont, and then taught high school English in New Orleans before settling in New York City in 1996. T earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2001 and has had work published in a variety of magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Believer, and Out, among many others. T was also publisher and editor of The Fish Tank 'zine, which was awarded a Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 1999--even though like, seven (7) people read it. While working at Teen People magazine on inspiring stories about The Backstreet Boys and 'NSync, T decided to start a boy band. So T became T-Rok, and asked a few singing and dancing buddies to form a group. "The Backdoor Boys" soon conquered the world, strangely acquiring more male fans than teenaged girl ones. Weird. T has enjoyed visiting Dollywood in the Great Smoky Mountains on two separate occasions, likes planes, and lives in the East Village of Manhattan with the 14-year-old canine Murray Cooper. 
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