Growing up a socialist, Zionist and political activist and still somehow staying an idealist was an unusual balance for me to create. Being a writer with a sense of humor is a way in which I have balanced this in my life. My poems are stories and follow many paths, sometimes sad or even dark and sometimes off the beaten track.

An international award winning poet, Anika Cooper calls herself the Wandering Jew. Anika has been writing poetry most of her life. Twenty-Seven Stories Above The Hudson is her first full-length book of poems.

Anika was born in Forest Hills, New York and has lived in New York, Ohio, California, New Jersey, Israel and Amsterdam, hoping one day soon to make Amsterdam her full time home.

Twenty-Seven Stories Above The Hudson Political, Feminist, Zionist, heart wrenching and feel good words, with an intense spirituality, flow throughout the pages of this book. Remembering the events of September 11th, from the 27th floor of a midtown high-rise, the author captures emotion, physical sensation and moves you with her words. These 27, mostly brief but all complete stories, will take you on a journey from the West coast of the United States to Israel and back to NYC. Travel with the author from here and now onto other times and worlds. Twenty-Seven Stories Above The Hudson is a multilayered group of poems to be read and read again, each time seeing something new.