T CooperAssociate Professor of English and Creative Writing

T Cooper is a novelist, filmmaker, writer/producer, short story writer, and journalist. He is the author of nine books, including the best-selling novels Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (Penguin) and The Beaufort Diaries (Melville House). His most recent nonfiction book is Real Man Adventures (McSweeney's), and he is co-author of the four-part Young Adult novel series Changers (Akashic).

Cooper served for five seasons as Writer and Executive Producer on The Blacklist, the long-running NBC television series (streaming on Netflix). Other TV writing credits include The Get Down (Netflix), and Copper (BBC America). He has also written original commissioned scripts and series for Showtime, A&E Studios, Netflix, and Mark Gordon Pictures, among others.

Cooper directed, produced, and filmed the feature documentary Man Made, recipient of a Sundance Institute fellowship and grant, and winner of the Fox Inclusion Award. Man Made (Amazon) appeared at more than 80 film festivals worldwide, winning 14 Best Documentary Audience and Jury Awards.

Cooper also adapted and produced an animated short called The Beaufort Diaries, based on his own graphic novella; the film premiered at Tribeca and South by Southwest. He has directed and produced several other short films, including a music video for Atlantic Records and multiple documentary shorts for ESPN Films.

Cooper's shorter, non-theatrical writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, Mother Jones, The Believer, Esquire, One Story, Bomb, The Guardian, The Brooklyn Review, The Georgia Review, Poets & Writers, O: The Oprah Magazine, and several others, including on Public Radio International.