Michael Copperman

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation writing teacher, U. of Oregon
Location Eugene, Oregon, United States
Introduction Michael Copperman’s prose has appeared in The Oxford American, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Salon, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Waxwing, and Copper Nickel, among other magazines, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster Literature Center, Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Oregon Literary Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission. His memoir of teaching in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta with Teach For America is forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi in September 2016.