Sara Cooper is a novelist and playwright-lyricist whose work blends dark humor, psychological insight, and sharp cultural critique. She is the author of Dead Center and Ravenous, both of which were finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards (2025 and 2026). Her theatre work has received awards and honours from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Theatre Wing, New York State Council on the Arts, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and ASCAP. She holds an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and currently teaches at Purchase College and NYU. Learn more at saracooper.me.

“Ravenous follows a young woman who has built her world and identity around her daily livestreams, where she voraciously ‘unboxes’ the mountains of products that are delivered to her door. The result is a stunning portrait of contemporary life that hits the sweet spot between comedy and tragedy and leads to an ending that leaves not only the products and characters, but the readers, ‘unboxed’.”

Sara Cooper is a novelist and playwright-lyricist whose work blends dark humor, psychological insight, and sharp cultural critique. She is the author of Dead Center and Ravenous, both of which were finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards (2025 and 2026). Her theatre work has received awards and honours from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Theatre Wing, New York State Council on the Arts, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and ASCAP. She holds an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and currently teaches at Purchase College and NYU. Learn more at saracooper.me.

“Ravenous follows a young woman who has built her world and identity around her daily livestreams, where she voraciously ‘unboxes’ the mountains of products that are delivered to her door. The result is a stunning portrait of contemporary life that hits the sweet spot between comedy and tragedy and leads to an ending that leaves not only the products and characters, but the readers, ‘unboxed’.”

Sara Cooper is a novelist and playwright-lyricist whose work blends dark humor, psychological insight, and sharp cultural critique. She is the author of Dead Center and Ravenous, both of which were finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards (2025 and 2026). Her theatre work has received awards and honours from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Theatre Wing, New York State Council on the Arts, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and ASCAP. She holds an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and currently teaches at Purchase College and NYU. Learn more at saracooper.me.

“Ravenous follows a young woman who has built her world and identity around her daily livestreams, where she voraciously ‘unboxes’ the mountains of products that are delivered to her door. The result is a stunning portrait of contemporary life that hits the sweet spot between comedy and tragedy and leads to an ending that leaves not only the products and characters, but the readers, ‘unboxed’.”