Douglas Anthony Cooper has published three novels with Penguin Random House. His most recent novel, The Strangler Fig, was released this year in Italian translation (as Afasia); and a Young Adult novel, Ghost Chemistry, was published in Turkish in 2021.

For five years Cooper was a Contributing Editor at New York Magazine, where he wrote and photographed the travel stories.

Cooper has written articles for numerous publications, including Wired, Rolling Stone, Grand Street, and The New York Times. An article in Travel + Leisure was chosen by Pico Iyer for inclusion in Best American Travel Writing 2004.

After living abroad for decades — mostly in Manhattan, Oaxaca, and Rome — he returned to Montreal in 2023.