Please join us for a conversation with Michigan Notable Books author Desiree Cooper about her award-winning book “Know the Mother.”

Cooper, a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, is a former attorney, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and Detroit community activist whose fiction dives into the intersection of racism and sexism. Using the medium of flash fiction, she explores intimate spaces to reveal what it means to be human. Cooper was a founding board member of Cave Canem, a national residency for emerging black poets. She is currently a Kimbilio Fellow, part of a national residency for African American fiction writers. A native of Detroit, she holds Bachelor of Science degrees in journalism and economics from the University of Maryland and a law degree from the University of Virginia.