Ari B. Cofer

she/they

poet, novelist, screenwriter

ari b. cofer (she/they) is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and author of paper girl and the knives that made her (Central Avenue Publishing, 2022) and unfold: poetry and prose (Central Avenue Publishing, 2023). ari holds a BA in Professional Writing from Baylor University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College. Their writing primarily focuses on mental health advocacy, their experiences as a queer, Black femme, and love.

About Their Work:

Blunt spoken bedroom and barroom ethicist, careful and canny chronicler of the saga of her own and her friends’ minds and bodies, Ari Cofer demands attention. Her words have an unhesitatingly direct energy cut with an offhand lyricism that had me reassessing dance floors and back booths. Cofer knows the world she passes through, knows the scene she’s part of, sees what hurts and what’s wrong, but she’s attuned to the grace to oneself, that is latent there and everywhere to the honest and open. So listen up as she shares her courageous words.

Follow On:

IG: @ari.b.cofer

Substack: Tender Poets Club

Website(s):

aribcofer.com

Books (for purchase):

paper girl and the knives that made her

(Central Avenue Publishing, 2022)

unfold: poetry and prose

(Central Avenue Publishing, 2023)

Online Work:

Ari B. Cofer interview with Breadfruit Mag