Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue-Tail Fly | 2006 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 2 | Broken Symmetry | 2006 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 3 | The Women Were Leaving the Men | 2007 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 4 | After-Music | 2008 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 5 | Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream | 2008 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 6 | Trespassing | 2008 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 7 | The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit | 2009 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 8 | If the World Becomes So Bright | 2009 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 9 | American Salvage | 2009 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 10 | By Cold Water | 2009 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 11 | As If We Were Prey | 2010 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 12 | Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain’t Never Been Told | 2010 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 13 | Voices of the Lost and Found | 2010 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 14 | An American Map | 2010 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 15 | In Which Brief Stories Are Told | 2011 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 16 | At The Bureau of Divine Music | 2011 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 17 | Love/Imperfect | 2011 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 18 | The Light Between | 2012 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 19 | To Embroider the Ground with Prayer | 2012 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 20 | The World of a Few Minutes Ago | 2012 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 21 | Allegiance | 2012 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 22 | Booker T & Them | 2012 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 23 | Practicing to Walk Like a Heron | 2013 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 24 | Earth Again | 2013 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 25 | Living Together | 2013 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 26 | Making Callaloo in Detroit | 2014 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 27 | Quality Snacks | 2014 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 28 | Love, Sex, and 4-H | 2015 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 29 | Know the Mother | 2016 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 30 | Sharp Blue Search of Flame | 2016 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 31 | I Want to Be Once | 2016 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 32 | States of Motion | 2017 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 33 | The Forgetting Tree | 2017 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 34 | The Lake Michigan Mermaid | 2018 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 35 | Field Recordings | 2018 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 36 | Meet Behind Mars | 2018 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 37 | Eden Springs | 2018 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 38 | I Got To Keep Moving | 2018 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 39 | Welcome to Replica Dodge | 2019 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 40 | Ragged Anthem | 2019 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 41 | Unblinking | 2019 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 42 | The Desk on the Sea | 2019 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 43 | Shades: Detroit Love Stories | 2019 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 44 | Gut Botany | 2020 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 45 | You’re in the Wrong Place | 2020 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 46 | A Fine Canopy | 2020 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 47 | You Are My Joy and Pain | 2020 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 48 | How Other People Make Love | 2021 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 49 | When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double | 2021 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 50 | Gun/Shy | 2021 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
| 51 | The Lake Huron Mermaid | 2024 | Desiree Cooper | Buy |
The Made in Michigan Writers series is a literary imprint from Wayne State University Press dedicated to publishing authors with ties to Michigan. Since its first titles in 2006, the series has grown to include more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays. The range is wide, from Bonnie Jo Campbell’s National Book Award-finalist American Salvage to poetry collections and experimental short fiction.
Many of the books in the series are set in Michigan or the broader Great Lakes region, though the connection to the state can also be through the author’s biography rather than the subject matter. The series has provided a publishing home for both emerging and established writers, and its titles have won or been nominated for major awards. Desiree Cooper’s Know the Mother, published in this series in 2016, is one of its better-known entries.