About me
John Cotter is the author of a memoir, Losing Music, winner of the Colorado Book Award for creative nonfiction, and of Under the Small Lights, winner of the Miami University Press novella competition. His essays and stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Raritan, Epoch, Guernica, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, LitHub, and Commonweal. He's been an Artist in Residence at SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, and the James Merrill House in Stonighton, Connecticut. He was presented with the Lighthouse Writers' Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence in 2018.