Biography
About the Author
L.M. Coppa grew up in Brooklyn, where a third-grade teacher let her put on plays after recess and told her, decades later on a street corner, that she had to keep writing. It took a divorce, two jobs, a daughter to raise, and a psychology degree finished the same year her daughter graduated high school—both of them in masks, during a pandemic—for her to finally listen.
She started writing And Then Ben in 2014, squeezing pages in around a full-time job, a teenage daughter, and a degree she was still working to finish. She completed the first draft the day before her 40th birthday.
Her second novel, The Shady Oaks Division, is a multi-award winning thriller, earning recognition from the NYC Big Book Award, Literary Titan, Firebird Book Awards, and The BookFest. She lives bicoastally between New Jersey and San Diego, where she writes about survival, identity, and women who refuse to be what anyone expects them to be.
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Awards
The Shady Oaks Division was L.M. Coppa’s second novel—and her first foray into award submissions. She placed in every competition she entered, earning five recognitions across four awards including the NYC Big Book Award, Literary Titan’s Gold Award, Firebird Book Awards, and The BookFest. Five placements. Four competitions. Second novel.
