Author
Short Bio
S.L. Dove Cooper has written A Promise Broken, Among the Glimmering Flowers, Sweetness Bled and Brindled, Courage Is the Price, and many short stories.
Medium Bio
S.L. Dove Cooper (she/they) is a queer author and editor. She spends her time exploring asexuality and aromanticism in literature, finally having found a good use for her MA. She has been chasing stories in some way or another since she was old enough to follow a narrative. Visit www.dovelynnwriter.com
Long Bio
S.L. Dove Cooper (she/they) is a queer author and editor. Her works include A Promise Broken, Heart of the Covenant, Among the Glimmering Flowers, and Snow as Soft as Feathers and Other Stories. She spends much of her time exploring asexuality and aromanticism in literature, both in her fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction has been published by The Book Smugglers and Luna Press Publishing. Multiple of her books have been published by The Kraken Collective. She currently resides in Europe and her idiom and spelling are, despite her best efforts, geographically confused, poor things. Visit www.dovelynnwriter.com
Researcher
Short Bio
S.L. Dove Cooper researches asexual and aromantic themes in literature and media. Her current studies focus strongly on asexuality and aromanticism in early and contemporary speculative fiction, tracing the ways in which speculative fiction shines a lens on human relationships.
Long Bio
S.L. Dove Cooper is an independent researcher focusing on asexual and aromantic representation and themes in literature. She stubbornly insists that the field is ‘asexuality and aromanticism studies’ or ‘aspec studies’. Her current studies focus strongly on asexuality and aromanticism in early and contemporary speculative fiction. Her first publication, Asexual Representation in Mainstream Speculative Fiction, was published at The Book Smugglers in 2019.
Visit www.dovelynnwriter.com
Key Publications
- Asexual Representation in Mainstream Speculative Fiction (at The Book Smugglers)
- Aromanticism, Asexuality, and the Illusion of New Narratives (in Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- Inklings of Invisibility: Essays on Asexual and Aromantic Tropes in Speculative Fiction
- “That’s Not Cosy!” Cosy Fantasy Foundations in Deerskin (at Speculative Insight)
- That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships in Cosy SFF (at Strange Horizons)