Gemma Cooper-Novack is a writer, writing coach, and arts educator; she received her master’s degree in Arts in Education from Harvard University. Gemma's poetry has appeared in Amethyst Arsenic, Ballard Street Poetry Journal (2013 Pushcart Prize nomination), Belleville Park Pages, Lyre Lyre and many others. Her fiction has been published in Printer’s Devil Review and Elsewhere. Gemma was a winner of the Young Playwrights Festival as an adolescent, and her play I’m Coming In Soon was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2000.