"To read Brenda Cooper's work is to experience the natural world in your bones: sea, sky, river, forest, and the miraculous creatures that inhabit our land and waters. Despite the beauty of the surroundings, Cooper respects her readers enough not to serve up easy answers to the ecological perils we humans have created. Her stories grapple with the consequences through various lenses-personal to political to technical to magical-as her characters come to terms with our impact on the planet."

- Tara Campbell, author of 2025 Philip K Dick Award finalist City of Dancing Gargoyles

"When Mothers Dream is a beautiful, colorful, exhilarating, and terrifying collection. These stories and poems are infused with the energy of the divine feminine, and solidly based on its wisdom. Cooper is one of our best short story writers, and it's a rare treat to see hard science fiction handled with such an artistic touch."

- Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches

"Brenda Cooper's When Mother's Dream is a must read book. This often poetic, compassionately prophetic collection of stories shows us our possible futures measured by the breadth and depth of a mother's love. It haunts me like the best of our genre's work."

- Ken Scholes, author of the Psalms of Isaak series