Deborah Copperud

Deborah Copperud has been a reference librarian, stay-at-home parent, school volunteer, preschool choir accompanist, Democratic Party activist, rock band cellist, podcast co-host, and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Glamour, The Rumpus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Racket, HuffPost, Open Secrets Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, Another Chicago Magazine, Blue Earth Review, Defenestration, Great River Review, Potomac Review, Door Is A Jar, and Good Tape. Her nonfiction manuscript, Volunteer Confessions: Essays About Working for Free, was named a Finalist in the 2025 Trio House Press Aurora Polaris Creative Nonfiction Award. Copperud lives in Minneapolis, MN.