Background
Cooper, Jane Todd was born on December 24, 1943 in Brooklyn. Daughter of John Curtis and Margaret E. (Johnston) Cooper.
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Entering Pisces
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Jane Todd Cooper
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor in Liberal Arts, Duquesne University, 1965. Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College, 1990.
Career
Instructor High School, Pittsburgh, 1967-1973. Educational director drug and alcohol treatment facility Pennsylvania Department Corrections, Camp Hill, 1974-1978. Project manager domiciliary care, boarding home provider training Pennsylvania State College Medicine, Hershey, 1979-1980, 82.
Director primary health care project Elizabethtown Hospital, Pennsylvania, 1980-1981. Instructor creative writing College New Jersey, 1993-1994. Instructor writing Bryn Mawr College, since 1999.
Instructor creative writing Kutztown (Pennsylvania) University, since 2003. Consultant Pennsylvania Council on Arts, 1979-1991. Board directors Poetry Center, Philadelphia, 1990-1997, director, 1994-1997.
Artist in residence New Jersey State Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, since 1982.
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Membership
Member Academy American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Friends of Writers.
Connections
Married William Hudson Shoff. Children: Donald Charles Taylor, Eamon Robert Shoff, Savannah Elizabeth Cooper-Ramsey.
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American
Awards
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Recipient Pennsylvania Council on Arts Fellowship in Poetry award, 1998, Distinguished Teaching Artist award, New Jersey State Arts Council, 1999—2001, New Jersey Governor's award for arts education, 1999, Distinguished Artist award, National Education Association, 1999—2000, Leeway Foundation Poetry award, 2001, Leeway Foundation award, 2004. Literature fellow, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, since 1987, Carroll scholar, 1964-1965, Warner Lambert/National Merit scholar, 1961-1965, fellow poetry, Hambidge Center, 1991-1993, Virginia Center Creative Arts, 1997, VCCA International exchange fellow, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany, 2002, Pennsylvania Council on Arts Professional Development grantee, 1999, 2000, 2002-2003, 2004.Recipient Pennsylvania Council on Arts Fellowship in Poetry award, 1998, Distinguished Teaching Artist award, New Jersey State Arts Council, 1999—2001, New Jersey Governor's award for arts education, 1999, Distinguished Artist award, National Education Association, 1999—2000, Leeway Foundation Poetry award, 2001, Leeway Foundation award, 2004. Literature fellow, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, since 1987, Carroll scholar, 1964-1965, Warner Lambert/National Merit scholar, 1961-1965, fellow poetry, Hambidge Center, 1991-1993, Virginia Center Creative Arts, 1997, VCCA International exchange fellow, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany, 2002, Pennsylvania Council on Arts Professional Development grantee, 1999, 2000, 2002-2003, 2004.