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.
poetry
Here We Were Happy
trade paperback / 6 x 9 / 120pp / OCT 20, 2026
Cooper Young’s first collection, Here We Were Happy, explores poetry of place–the practice of letting the environment kindle and direct his work. The poems follow journeys across Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Hawaii, and California, gathering what travel leaves behind: stories overheard, meals shared with strangers, and memories of landscapes. The collection captures the beauty and wisdom of the natural world and the human experiences intertwined with it.
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