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Gemma Cooper-Novack is the author of We Might As Well Be Underwater (Unsolicited Press, 2017). She is a queer writer whose poetry and fiction have appeared in more than forty journals, including Glass, Midway Journal, and Lambda’s Poetry Spotlight, and been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net Awards.
Published chapbooks include “Too Much Like a Landscape” (2015, with Warren Tales) and “Bedside Manner” (The Head and the Hand, 2020). Gemma’s plays have been produced in Syracuse, Chicago, Boston, and New York. She was a runner-up for the 2016 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and has been awarded artist’s residencies from Catalonia to Virginia and a grant from the Barbara Deming Fund.
Gemma is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Literacy Education at Hobart & William Smith Colleges.