M. Thomas Cooper

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--Michael

ABOUT MICHAEL: 

After surviving two near fatal bike accidents in 2017 and 2018, Michael finally realized he needed to get the heck out of Dodge. Dodge being Beaverton, Oregon.

Due to a long term love affair with France, which began in the wet spring of 1986 when he rode his bike from Paris to Marseille, he felt there was only one place on the planet he could be truly and completely happy…. Pakistan.

Since (being American) he wasn’t sure where Pakistan was, he decided to stick to the usual (like his father ordering teriyaki salmon at a Japanese restaurant) and settle in France, where he now lives with his Russian wife in a small village in the bucolic Lot region. And, yes, he is very, very unhappy.

Because he is so unhappy and the first son of a nuclear physicist and a dental hygienist, coupled with being born in the San Francisco bay area in the 1960s, he writes plays, poems, novels, and a few short stories with the underlying themes of absurdism, existentialism, and….

Besides spending nearly 40 years writing, he has been on the board of directors of both the Willamette Writers and Portland Area Theatre Alliance. He has had plays produced around the world and, literally, on the high seas. He has also had a novel published, taught many a writing course, been held up at gunpoint, learned bad jokes while bartending, and, figuratively, kicked a dog in the balls.

If you have any questions regarding the writing life, existence in general, or are interested in having him critique a manuscript or give a workshop, please feel free to contact him… HERE.

Lastly, he wishes everyone, in these particularly odd times, to stay safe, stay healthy, and, always, stay true to who you are, or would like to be.