Ciaran Cooper

Ciaran Cooper’s fiction has appeared in Salamander, The Pinch, Fourteen Hills, MicroLit Almanac, The Midwest Prairie Review, and other literary journals. Cooper has received several awards for his writing, including First Place for The UW Madison Writers Institute Prizes for both fiction and poetry, The Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize, and Third Place for the River City National Fiction Award. He has received fellowship grants from Salem Art Works in New York and the Illinois Arts Council. Cooper holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.