(Author photo: Diane Baldwin) 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 born and raised in Los Angeles, California, 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 in addition to his novels, T's work has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, 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. T has been awarded residencies to The MacDowell Colony, Ledig House International, and The Millay Colony (where he was The New York Times Foundation Fellow for 2008). T won the NewNowNext Award in 2008, and in 2004, he 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 a visiting faculty member at Middlebury College during Winter Term 2009, and T's short story "Swimming" was one of "100 Distinguished Stories of 2007" in The Best American Short Stories 2008 (ed. Salman Rushdie). 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. (Scratch that: R.I.P. Murray Cooper; welcome Milton Cooper.) CLICK HERE to check out a New Feature of T-Cooper.com Click for ALTERNATE BIO CLICK HERE to TAKE a WALK in the AUTHOR'S SHOES Click for NEWS (Author portrait with Norman the sock monkey by Vinay Ganapathy)