Joan Drescher Cooper is a writer and poet living in Baltimore, Maryland after a career in teaching. She has been published in magazines such as The Delmarva Review, The Write Launch, The Bay to Ocean Anthology, Wildsound Writing Festival, and Here/Not Here Ekphrastic Collection by Salisbury University. She published her first collection of short stories, Circling the Inferno, in 2023 and first poetry collection, Birds Like Me, with Finishing Line Press in 2019. She is an avid gardener, teacher, grandmother and a rescuer of a bevy of dogs.