Author of Future-Forward Essays & Literary Stories

Author of many books published by the self-made micro-press Head Space Books, Jay Cooke is a skilled and innovative craftsperson focusing on high-stakes, high-minded creative essays, fiction and nonfiction.

As a realist and optimist, Jay is compelled to look ahead through the real conflicts of living in this world at a future that is not just ahead, but a future that moves forward. Forward through self, forward through social evolution, and forward through creative expression, Jay’s writing reflects this mixture of realism and optimism to create writing that is both exciting and grounding, entertaining and impactful.

Utilizing genre tropes, the author subverts expectations of the reader by layering personal, social & philosophical narrative elements to bring each story to fruition. This blended conceptual framework supports each genre’s formulae while exposing its problematic framework, thereby forming a dual subvert-support experience for the reader, which is as satisfying as it is edifying.

Jay’s nonfiction, in particular, is memoir-style and frequently in the skin of international travel writing. This enables headier and heavier topics to flow with the high-momentum prose to culminate in a vignette-style conclusion that can often humble and humor the reader as much as it astounds and inspires.