The Year of Nos Project is a outcropping of the work of Shannon Ivey, coach and creative. The interviews for this part of the #whatshesaidproject bring all the boys, girls, and nonbinary folks to the yard to discuss creativity, resilience, and smart hacks to moving your life and creative work forward.

Canadian-American poet Dr. Sarah Cooper is a Canadian-American scholar and poet. She is the author of two poetry collections: Permanent Marker (Paper Nautilus, 2020) and 89% (Clemson University Press 2022).  Her poems also appear in Lunch, Sinister Wisdom, Iron Horse and in Poem-A-Day. As a professor she has received the Holman Award for teaching, was a 2021 LGBTQ+ Faculty Excellence Award winner, a 2022 Gentry Award winner for teaching excellence and the 2022 Tee A. Corrine Fellow at the University of Oregon. Currently she is the Assistant Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies as well as a professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department Clemson University.

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