John Cotter

John
Cotter
Expertise
- Reading
- Lit Fest
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Process
- Poetry
John Cotter is the author of a memoir, Losing Music, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions, and Under the Small Lights, winner of the Miami University Press novella contest. His essays, theater pieces, and fiction have appeared, or will appear soon, in New England Review, Raritan, Georgia Review, Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Washington Square, Bookforum, and Commonweal. In 2018 he was Artist in Residence at SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, and in 2022 he'll be a resident fellow at the James Merrill House in Stonighton, Connecticut. He was presented with the Lighthouse Writers' Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence in 2018.
John Cotter is entertaining, insightful, and--let's scrap the adjectives and head straight to verbs. He enlightened us. He guided the class toward cohesiveness and created a space where we stretched ourselves. We were creators in this four-week series. I can see why John Cotter comes so well recommended and I will absolutely take his classes again.
Laura Mahal