Cooper's first book, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers (2013), recounts her journey walking the length of Broadway, and includes 75 maps from both anonymous mapmakers and notable New Yorkers such as The New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov and Tony Award-winning actor Harvey Fierstein. The book grew out of a collaborative art project, for which Cooper created a Tumblr blog in 2009 that invited strangers to fill out a blank map of Manhattan with their own memories and submit it for consideration.
