Corinna Cook

Corinna Cook is the author of Leavetakings, an essay collection (University of Alaska Press 2020). She is a former Fulbright Fellow, an Alaska Literary Award recipient, and a Rasmuson Foundation awardee. Corinna’s essays appear in Flyway, Alaska Quarterly Review, Alaska Magazine, and elsewhere; her journalism appears in venues including Yukon North of Ordinary; and her critical articles appear in Assay and New Writing. Corinna holds degrees from Pomona College and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and her PhD is in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Corinna’s current book project looks at Alaska-Yukon artwork, goes out on the land, and searches for ways to live with colonial history.

Corinna is rooted in Alaska and currently splits time between Anchorage and McCarthy.

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