Candy J. Cooper

Candy J. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She has been a staff writer for four newspapers, including the The Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Examiner. She is the author (with Marc Aronson) of Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, MI Fought for their Lives and Warned the Nation, which was named a Top Ten Books for Teens, 2020 by the New York Public Library, a Booklist 2020 Editor's Choice, a Best Book 2020 by School Library Journal, and a Gold Standard Selection by the Junior Library Guild. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times Magazine, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. Her essay on stepfamilies is part of an anthology, My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family, published by W. W. Norton.