Sun Cooper leads Sun Literary with twenty years of experience as an accomplished editor, project manager, and publishing consultant.
Starting from her inherited grandmother's desk in a horse barn to traveling across the West in a painted Airstream, Sun grew a nomadic studio into an editorial agency collaborating with Big Five publishers and philanthropic literary organizations worldwide.
At ease with projects small and big, Sun builds trust and brightens connections across multiple terrains of perspective, histories, experience, and expertise. She has assembled and leads a stable of over a hundred writers, reviewers, historians, and cultural consultants on a project-by-project basis.
Her own projects have been featured in American Cowboy, WAVES: A Confluence of Women's Voices, National Geographic, Southern Writers, UNUM and more. During the pandemic, she collaborated on a limited series featuring remarkable women's journeys such as "Lady Long Rider."
Edited projects include work for writers new and established - such as Diane Gilliam, author of Kettle Bottom; Shonda Buchanan, author of Black Indian; Aric S. Queen, author of Nat Geo's The Good Traveler series; Kate Oliver, author of The Modern Caravan; Melissa Coss Aquino, author of Carmen and Grace; and Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior and Waves Returning.
Based in Cherokee Nation, she was named AROHO's 2015 Blackbird Fellow and serves with various communities such as the Diversability Leadership Collective and Read Your World.
Prioritizing creativity, regenerative systems of storytelling, and shared progress, she has managed book development & review for Big Five Publishers and guided authors through integrative storytelling & well-informed paths of their choice to successful publications, and more importantly, meaningful & fulfilling outcomes.
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Sun Literary's Vision Map
As the daughter of multiple inheritances, Sun Lit subscribes to creativity, regenerative practice, and shared progress. Sun Lit maps a deeply-informed, morally-imaginative approach to storytelling projects and collaborations.
"We gave thanks for the story, for all parts of the story because it was by the light of those challenges we knew ourselves." – Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate
"Let a generous spirit sustain my life." - The Book of Psalms