Antoinette Cooper

Antoinette Cooper (she/we) is a writer and TEDx speaker committed to the liberation of Black bodies through the arts, ancestral healing, social justice, and medical humanities. Born in Jamaica and raised in New York City housing projects, she holds a BA from Cornell and an MFA from Columbia. Cooper sits on the board of Narrative Medicine at the CUNY School of Medicine. She was awarded a literary grant from the Café Royal Foundation and a residency with BLKSPACE. Her work has appeared in The Amistad, Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, and more. She has led workshops at Columbia, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rikers Island Jail. Cooper is currently at work publishing a multi-genre collection documenting historical and present-day violence on the Black female body.