Joan Drescher Cooper-- Poetry and Short Stories​
​If nothing else, humanity is an interesting condition.

Publications

Circling the Inferno-
​A Short Story Collection
published 2022 and relaunched July 2023
​
Original feature story published February 2022-
Read “Circling the Inferno”
​thewritelaunch.com/2022/01/circling-the-inferno/

Birds Like Me
A Poetry Collection
is available through Finishing Line Press,
Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

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Buy direct from Joan--contact me at tsugrad82@gmail.com

Birds Like Me
www.finishinglinepress.com/product/birds-like-me-by-joan-drescher-cooper/--A Collection of Poetry

NaNoWriMo Writer since 2013
Novel Project for 2019 NaNoWriMo-Grave Labyrinth
Novella Project for 2020-21 NaNoWriMo-​Charlie's Heart

Grave Labyrinth synopsis:  Cassie's Halloween weekend in Lewes, Delaware should warn her off: her future mother-in-law hates her on sight, her fiancée is being stalked, and then blood leaks out of the trunk of her car. Twisted between sins of the past and the present, Cassie delves into mystery during one twenty-four hour visit to the historic seaport.  

Featured in The Talbot Spy--Quarantine Poems
​cambridgespy.org/2021/02/06/delmarva-review-days-8-9-visits-during-quarantine-by-joan-drescher-cooper/

Picture
Artwork--Ashley Lewis--KHS 2022
Selection from "October Assateague"

Dark birds float on flat water,
Hardly recognized as the ocean today.
It is deep blue, rarely breaking, and then
Rolling into a gentle slap just before the sand,
The way the river used to do to the bulkheads
At home, shoving into them playfully.
These dark birds—not the usual brown pelicans,
Hunt alone or comingle with odd seagulls,
The gulls that look prehistoric, gigantic.
They glide over the water and spy the right
Spot to land and then just sit. No diving,
Eating, or scouting except for a place to
Float with the rollers just before
They nudge the shore.

Publications 
​"Circling the Inferno" The Write Launch Jan 2022
"Celia's Audience with a Madman"  The Bay to Ocean Anthology 2020
"Sonnets from Quarantine Day 5 & 6" The Delmarva Review 2020
"Overgrown" The Here l Not Here Anthology by SU Galleries 2020
"Craft--Boat" The Sand Dune Anthology Local Gems Press 2020
Birds Like Me Poetry Collection  Finishing Line Press 2019
Book Review of  The Animators The Delmarva Review 2019
"Cakes, Pies, and Fancy French Pastries" River Babble 2018
"Bird at Work" Doorknobs and BodyPaint 2016
Lilac Hill Folly Salt Water Media 2016
Return to Lilac Hill Salt Water Media 2015
Finding Home at Lilac Hill Salt Water Media 2014
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Charlie's Heart 2020 Autumn Project

Set on the other side of the tracks in the Berlin and Ocean City area, a nurse supports her aging parents as they struggle to keep the family farm. Mix Eastern Shore values with the residual effects of the COVID19 on health care workers, and a fateful visit by Charlie's selfish brother to the farm after a long absence. Local history, romance, and family dynamics rule.
PicturePurchase the Lilac Hill novels through Salt Water Media of Berlin, Maryland. Finding Home is available as an ebook from all vendors including Amazon, Nook and Ibooks.
Available for purchase through Salt Water Media, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon Borrowing Trouble Blog--thoughts on reading, writing and other adventures

Other Projects
  • Pirates: Love and Artificial Intelligence--Editing 2019-2020
  • Craft Poetry Collection 2019-2022​
  • The Collection--Nanowrimo Short Story Collection 2017
  • His White Lie--Nanowrimo 2016 Young Adult Novel
  • Haunting Genevieve's Reach--A Paranormal Romance set on the Delmarva--Nanowrimo 2014
  • The Portia Journal--Finalist in The Next Novelist Competition 2013
  • Confessions in Birdsong--A Baltimore Odyssey 2013-2020
  • On Bishopville Road--Murder Mystery Paranormal Adventure Nanowrimo 2013

Baltimore Book Festival--ESWA booth 2014 & Step Up Writers 2014-2018