Wilders

by Brenda Cooper

  This book was written during my first three semesters at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. It wasn’t workshopped there (I was busy writing poetry), but I hope being there infused it with some of the creative energy and community of that program. Thanks to all of the faculty and administration—there are too many of you to name, but some of your advice about writing social justice work and writing good sentences stuck in my head. Hopefully some of that also came through onto the page.

  Thanks most of all to people who read my work, review my work, talk about it, and who send me messages. All of those things matter greatly to me and convince me I may be writing into a conversation and not into a void.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Photo by Toni Cramer

  Brenda Cooper is the author of the Glittering Edge duology, Edge of Dark and Spear of Light, the Ruby’s Song duology, The Creative Fire and The Diamond Deep, and the Silver Ship series. The Silver Ship and the Sea was selected by Booklist as one of the top ten 2007 adult books for youth to read and won an Endeavour award. The other books in the series are Reading the Wind and Wings of Creation. Edge of Dark was a finalist for the P. K. Dick Award and won the Endeavour Award. She is the author of Mayan December and has collaborated with Larry Niven (Building Harlequin’s Moon).

  Brenda is a working futurist and a technology professional with a passionate interest in the environment.