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Guest author T.L. Cooper |
 Growing up on a farm in Tollesboro, Kentucky provided T. L. Cooper with a fertile place for her imagination to germinate. She wrote her first short story around age eight though she first started telling stories to save a groundhog that lived in her father’s barn from being shot and to entertain her family a few years earlier. She studied Corrections and Juvenile Services and Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky where she earned a bachelor of science. She has lived in Lexington, Kentucky, Columbus, Ohio, and Boise, Idaho. Extensive travel within the United States as well as visits to Germany, England, Spain, France, Jordan, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai has  provided her with rich opportunities to learn about different cultures, beliefs, and people. Several of her poems have appeared in anthologies as well as online. Her short stories have appeared online. She published her first novel, All She Ever Wanted, in 2002. Her short story, Fortress, placed second in the Professional Division of the Idaho Magazine 2005 Fiction Writing Contest. She contributed material from her experience marketing her first book two book marketing books. Her essay, Common Values, tied for first place in the Be the Star You Are! 5th Annual Essay Contest in 2009. Her essay, The Gift of You, appears in the book, Be the Star You Are! for Teens. Currently, she lives in Albany, Oregon with her husband of eighteen years. |