Cooper Lee Bombardier
Limited Term Appointment Instructor
Email: cooperleebombardier@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6923
Mailing Address:
- Creative Nonfiction & Memoir
- Hybrid/Experimental Prose Forms
- Trans Literature/Trans Methodologies
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Masculinities
- Whaling Culture in 19th Century New England
- Herman Melville & American Renaissance Literature
Education:
- BFA, Illustration/Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
- MS, Writing/Book Publishing, Portland State University
- MFA, Creative Nonfiction, Portland State University
- Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, Reed College
Current Research:
Currently, I am researching 19th century literature from the “American Renaissance,” the history and subjugated knowledges of New England whaling culture and it’s impacts on technological, social, and scientific advancements, digital histories of trans embodiment and medicine, current ecological impacts of climate change on whales in North Atlantic.
Remarks:
Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer, educator, editor, and visual artist based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki/Halifax Nova Scotia. He is the author of Pass with Care: Memoirs, a finalist for the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award in nonfiction. His writing appears in The Malahat Review, Xtra, Narratively, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Longreads, BOMB, and The Rumpus; and in 19 anthologies, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning book, The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, and Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction from Transgender Writers, winner of an ALA Stonewall Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Access Copyright Foundation, Lambda Literary Foundation, The Sou’wester Lodge, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Port Bickerton Lighthouse Residency, and RADAR Labs. Cooper has taught writing, women, gender, and sexuality studies, and critical/cultural studies at Dalhousie University, University of King’s College MFA program, St. Mary’s University, University of Portland, Clark College, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Critical Studies graduate program, NSCAD, Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, and as a writer-in-residence through Writers in The Schools programs in San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, and across Nova Scotia.
Selected Publications
Books:
Pass With Care: Memoirs, Dottir Press, New York, NY 2020
Chapbooks:
The Economy of Nostalgia, CNF chapbook, Greying Ghost Press, Boston, 2019
Book Chapters/Anthology Contributions:
“Pippa in Santa Fe,” Act Like You Know Me (monograph/critical survey of 50 years of work by artist Pippa Garner), Eds. Fiona Duncan and Maurin Dietrich, Essay. Bierke Verlag, Berlin, Jan. 2024
“Prayer for the Workingman,” What Things Cost: An Anthology for The People, Eds. Ashley M. Jones and Rebecca Gayle Howell, Essay. University Press of Kentucky, March 2023
“Homeward: On the Queer Peripatetics of My In-between,” Home is Where You Queer Your Heart, Eds. Arisa White, Miah Jeffra Milla, Monique Mero, Essay. Foglifter Press, Feb. 2021
“Writing the Self/Writing the Other,” Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft. Ed. Audrey T. Carroll. Essay. Human/Kind Press, Jan. 2021
“Why Artist Vivek Shraya is Afraid of Men,” LGBTQIA+ Literature for Students Volume 1. Ed. Shannon Weber, Cengage Learning/Gale 2020
“Man-ologues,” Now That We’re Men: A Play and True-Life Accounts of Boys, Sex, & Power, Ed. by Katie Cappiello, Dottir Press, January 2020
Articles:
“Apocalypse, Meow,” Liber: A Feminist Review, Vol. 3, Issue 2, January/February 2025
“Renegades Documents the Queer History Chloe Sherman Helped Create,” Xtra* Magazine, December 2023
“We (Still) Need Nevada,” Liber: A Feminist Review, Vol. 1: Issue 3, July/August 2022
“Fabricating Masculinity,” (Published as “How to Transition When Your Models of Masculinity Are Macho Biker Dudes”), Narratively, February 2020
“Throwing a Sheet Over the Ghost,” The Women’s Review of Books, Vol.37 (4), Wellesley–Old City Publishing, Essay, 2020
“The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #188: T Fleischmann,” The Rumpus, August 2019
“A Psychogeography of Abandonment: An Interview with Sophia Shalmiyev,” BOMB Magazine, February 2019
“Decoupling,” Foglifter Literary Journal, Issue #3, 2018 (This issue of Foglifter was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Anthology).
“What Do We Do Together,” poetry, What Do We Do Together, eohippus labs, Spontaneous Series, Sept. 2018
“Half as Sensitive,” The Malahat Review #205, January 2019, (Nominated by The Malahat Review for the 2019 Canadian National Magazine Award in Personal Journalism).
“A Quiet Barometer of What’s Wrong – An Interview with Nikki Darling,” BOMB Magazine, 2018
“Why Do Men Fight? An Interview with Thomas Page McBee,” Longreads, 2018
“Creative Nonfiction in the Age of the Trans New Wave: More Like This Than Any of These,” co-authored with Ryka Aoki, Colette Arrand, Grace Reynolds, and Brook Shelley, “Featured Writers #83,” Ninth Letter, 2018
“A Trans Body’s Path in Eight Folds,” The Kenyon Review, 2016
Selected Media:
“Writing Across Time and Queer Generations: Cooper Lee Bombardier in Conversation with Paul Lisicky,” Lit Hub, 2020
“Pass With Care, A Review,” by Robin Storey Dunn, Gertrude Press, 2020
“Ten Questions for Cooper Lee Bombardier,” author interview, Poets & Writers, 2020
“Glittery and Gritty: Review of Pass with Care: Memoirs by Cooper Lee Bombardier,” Berkeley Fiction Review, 2020
“Stay Weird: Cooper Lee Bombardier in Conversation with Kyra Kristmanson,” author interview, the Malahat Review, 2019
Selected Awards:
- Arts Nova Scotia Professional Development Grant, 2024
- SMU CUPE 3912 Professional Development Travel Grant, 2024
- Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2024
- Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant, 2022
- Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Grant, 2021
- Access Copyright Foundation Professional Development Grant, 2021
- CLMP Firecracker Award, Finalist in Nonfiction for Pass with Care: Memoirs, 2021
- PEN Northwest Margery Boyden Wilderness Residency 2021 (Unable to attend due to Pandemic)
- Port Bickerton Lighthouse Artist Residency, May 2021
- Nomination for 2019 The Canadian National Magazine Award in Personal Journalism, Nominated by Malahat Review
- Lambda Literary Award for Anthology, nominee, Foglifter Literary Journal, Issue #3, contributing writer, 2019
- Sou’Wester Lodge Writer-In-Residence, Seaview, WA, 2019
- The Paul Lisicky Scholarship for a Lambda Literary Fellow, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, 2018
- American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards/Barbara Gittings Literature Award, for Meanwhile, Elsewhere, contributing writer, 2018
- Lambda Literary Award Nominee/Fiction, for Meanwhile, Elsewhere, contributing writer, 2018
- Sou’Wester Lodge Writer-In-Residence, Seaview, WA, June 2018
- Lambda Literary Award Winner/Nonfiction, The Remedy: Essays on Queer Health Issues, contributing writer, 2017
- Writer-in-Residence, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Critical Studies Graduate Program, 2017 – 2018
- PSUFA Professional Development Grant Award, PSU Faculty Association, 2017
- Sou’Wester Lodge Writer-In-Residence, Seaview, WA, 2017
- National Queer Arts Festival, commissioned artist, San Francisco, 2017
- Regional Arts and Culture Council Fellowship, Professional Development Grant, Portland, OR 2016