[citation needed] He currently works as a freelance editor of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and memoir.
Cooper's poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Slate Magazine,[4] Poetry, Orion, Gander Press Review,[5] Blackbird,[6] AGNI,[7] Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares[8] and are included in 25 anthologies[citation needed] of contemporary poetry.
"But in January 1993, Bill Bottrell and Kevin Gilbert, Sheryl Crow's producer and keyboard player, took a break from recording her first CD, Tuesday Night Music Club, for want of better lyrics to a tune they already had in mind.
[1][11] In 2002, Cooper's lyrics for a fictional band appeared in ex-college friend[12] Madison Smartt Bell's novel, Anything Goes.
In 2003, the songs were put to music by Bell,[13] recorded[14] and produced by bassist Don Dixon, with Mitch Easter,[15] and percussionist Jim Brock[12] and released as Madison Smartt Bell and Wyn Cooper: 40 Words for Fear.