Cooper Young
Cooper Young (he/him) is a poet, mathematician, and cybersecurity engineer who hails from Santa Cruz, California. His work was selected for Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature anthology in 2024, and his poems have won the Albion Review’s poetry prize and Princeton University’s Morris W. Croll Poetry Prize.
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Here We Were Happy
trade paperback / 6 x 9 / 90pp / 978-1-965320-81-5 / OCT 20, 2026
Inspired by generations of wandering poets, Cooper Young’s debut book lets the environment kindle and direct his work. The travel-rooted collection follows the poet’s journeys across Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Hawaii, and California, where Young explores the poetry of place: stories overheard, meals shared with strangers, and landscapes admired. These poems celebrate the beauty and wisdom of the natural world and the human experiences intertwined within it.
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