From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Born in Louisville, KY, Priscilla Cooper is a poet/performer, artist, author, teacher, and a leader. As a teenager, she was employed at the Louisville Defender newspaper. She is a graduate of DuPont Manual High School, Lincoln University of Missouri, and American University in Washington, D.C. Her first volume of poetry, Call Me Black Woman, was published in 1993. Cooper has numerous publications and productions and has edited three anthologies. She has also taught writing.

Priscilla Hancock Cooper and Dhana Bradley-Morton founded the Theater Workshop of Louisville. They also presented creative collaborations, the first of which was a poetic concert in 1981, I Have Been Hungry All of My Years. This was followed by Four Women and God's Trombones, and they also performed in Amazing Grace in 1993. Both are featured in the KET Production, Words Like Freedom/Sturdy Black Bridges, a poetic concert featuring African-American writing and music.

Starting in 1998, Cooper was the teacher of the Anti-violence Creative Writing Program, "Writing Our Stories," sponsored by the Alabama Department of Youth Services and the Alabama Writers Forum. In 2005, Cooper was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature by the Alabama State Council. In 2006, she received the Coming Up Taller Award by the U.S. President's Committee in the Arts and Humanities. Cooper was the vice president of Institutional Programs at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the founding director of the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium (AAACRHSC). 

For more see B. Brady, "Architecturally Sound," CityBeat, vol. 6, issue no. 33, 2000; see Priscilla Hancock Cooper at Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium; Cooper, Priscilla Hancock. "Did Anyone Fight For Phillis?" Callaloo, vol. 42 no. 3, 2024, p. 117-119. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947919.