BOOK LAUNCH: RAVENOUS by Sara Cooper

Multi-award-winning author Sara Cooper presents a wild debut novel in this satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.
About this Event

We're thrilled to welcome Sara Cooper to The Twisted Spine in conversation with Anna K. Jacobs (TEETH) on August 11!

About RAVENOUS
Breigh is a hot elder millennial who is obsessed with the brands she is ambassading for. Her policy is YES, and her livestreams are viral. But she’s pregnant now, and her body’s changing. It's not that she's hungry. She's definitely not depressed. She just sometimes eats boxes of makeup before passing out.
Daddy’s bought a brand-new home for Breigh and Baby, complete with a Greenguard Gold-certified, twice-imported velvet infant chaise — but is he cheating on her with a hotter, younger coworker? Breigh has to get Baby out before it ruins her. She has to create more and better content than the other Momfluencers. She has to unbox something new. She has to unbox … Baby! Baby approves of her seven-step marketing plan. Welcome to #LiveBirth.
Breigh’s increasingly unhinged life reflects her generation’s anxieties around psychological manipulation through social media platforms. Multi-award-winning author Sara Cooper presents a wild debut novel in this incisive satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.

About the speakers:

Sara Cooper is a debut novelist and an award-winning playwright-lyricist. She lives in New York with her husband John and their son Theo. Major awards include Richard Rodgers Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); Grand Jury Prize, Barnstorm Media (2020); Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014). RAVENOUS was a Finalist for the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Recent theatre writing highlights: Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, development with Paper Mill Playhouse (2025), University of Michigan (2024), Village Theatre (2023), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2022), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021); SINGULARITY, Purchase College grant (2024), Honorable Mention, Relentless Award (2024); HoT, development with Goodspeed (2022), Johnny Mercer Foundation (2020), New York Theatre Barn New (2020); The Memory Show, productions at LAMB Theatre (2022), New Bard, London (2016), Transport Group, The Duke on 42nd Street (2013), WaterGateMedia, Seoul (2012-2013), and Barrington Stage Company (2010), development with NAMT (2010); Windows and Breakfast, production, Lowbrow Opera Collective (2021, 2020); Elevator Heart, production, Moxie Arts (2019), development at USF (2018); Fault Lines, Kennedy Center, American Opera Initiative (2018); Things I Left On Long Island, FringeNYC (2014), Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), TimeOut NY Critics’ Pick (2014). MFA Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, NYU. Sara currently teaches at Purchase College.

Anna K. Jacobs is a Jonathan Larson and Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award-winning composer, lyricist, and book writer. In collaboration with Michael R. Jackson, she wrote the music and co-wrote the book for the Drama Desk Award and Lucille Lortel-nominated Teeth, which Vulture hailed as a “bloody, bawdy musical with banging songs.” The musical has been published in book form by TCG Books, and an original cast recording has been released on Yellow Sound Label. Anna’s stage adaptation of Moana is in residence at the Walt Disney Theatre onboard the Disney Treasure. Her other musicals include POP! (Yale Rep, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Studio Theatre), Anytown (George Street Playhouse), Harmony, Kansas (Diversionary Theatre), and Witnesses (California Center for the Arts). In collaboration with playwright Anna Ziegler, she is also writing A House Without Windows, a musical about the life and disappearance of child prodigy author, Barbara Newhall Follett. Anna has taught musical theatre writing to students at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the New School, Temple University, the New York Youth Symphony, and for the Johnny Mercer Foundation. www.annakjacobs.com

Event guidelines:

Each ticket includes either a paperback copy of RAVENOUS or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card.

Limited additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event.

A signing will follow the discussion.

If you have any questions about the guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].