DAVID COOPER earned an MA in Creative Writing at The City College of CUNY where he won the Academy of American Poets Prize. He is co-author with Beth Rosenberg of "I Am My Beloved's," a collection of interviews and photographs of Jewish-American couples that explores the intersection of each couple's identities as a couple and as Jews and will reflect the diversity of the Jewish-American community. His translation of Israeli poet Rachel Eshed's second book Havtachot Ktanot (Little Promises) is published by Mayapple Press (2006). His ebooks Glued to the Sky and JFK: Lines of Fire: A Verse Docu-Drama were published by PulpBits (2003). David’s poems are anthologized in XY Files: Poems on The Male Experience (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997), and his poems and translations have appeared in numerous periodicals. The dramatic monologues in JFK: Lines of Fire are adapted entirely from spoken word texts and transcripts, a process that prepares him well to edit the interview transcripts that will appear in "I Am My Beloved's". He was a finalist in the 1999 Snake Nation Press book contest, and has been a semi-finalist in several other national contests, including the 2007 Pushcart Prize. David is also a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where he specialized in media and communications. His prose has appeared in New York Woman, Poetic Voices, Mind Body and Soul, The Israel Economist, and the wire services of the Associated Press. He has taught history, poetry, and writing on the middle school, high school, and college levels. David lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife Shoshana Cooper.