Raki Kopernik

Fiction Writer

Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota US
Website: 
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RSS feed: 
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Author's Bio

Raki is a queer, Jewish writer. She is the author of The Things You Left (Unsolicited Press 2020), a 2021 Minnesota Book Award finalist, The Memory House (The Muriel Press 2019) a 2020 Minnesota Book Award finalist, and The Other Body (Dancing Girl Press 2017). Her work has appeared in numerous publications and has been nominated for several other awards, including the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Pen Faulkner Award in Fiction. She has participated in Everwood Farmstead's Artist Residency and Write On Door County Writers Residency. Raki is a fiction editor at MAYDAY and lives in Minneapolis.

Education: 
Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:
The Things You Left (Unsolicited Press, 2020)
Prizes won: 
  • Pushcart Prize Nominee 2021
  • Pen Faulkner Award in Fiction Nominee 2021
  • Minnesota Book Award Finalist 2021
  • Minnesota Book Award Finalist 2020
  • Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest Semi-Finalist 2020
  • Pushcart Prize Nominee 2018
  • Glimmer Train Short Story Award Top 25 2018
  • Thirty West Chapbook Contest Shortlist 2018
  • Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award Honorable Mention 2017
  • Glimmer Train Short Story Award Honorable Mention 2016
  • Black River Chapbook Contest Finalist 2016

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Aimee Bender Jhumpa Lahiri Etgar Keret Jeanette Winterson Arundhati Roy Diane di Prima Laura van den Berg Catherine Lacey Lauren Groff Olga Tokarczuk Marge Piercy Maggie Nelson Ocean Vuong Rebecca Brown Tom Spanbauer Eileen Myles
What I'm reading now: 
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Israeli American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, At Risk Youth, LGBTQ, Parents, Schools, Teenagers, Women
Fluent in: 
English, Hebrew
Born in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
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Last update: Apr 05, 2021