Corinna Cook
Piper Writers Studio Instructor 2021
About Corinna Cook
Corinna Cook (she/her) is the author of LEAVETAKINGS, a lyric essay collection (University of Alaska Press 2020). She is a former Fulbright Fellow, an Alaska Literary Award recipient, a Rasmuson Foundation awardee, and her PhD is in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Corinna’s essays appear in Flyway, Alaska Quarterly Review, Alaska Magazine, and elsewhere; her journalism appears in Yukon North of Ordinary; and her critical articles appear in Assay and New Writing. Corinna’s current book project looks at Alaska-Yukon artwork, goes out on the land, and searches for ways to live with colonial history.
Find Classes with Corinna Cook
Type: Craft Class, Workshop
Genre: Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Poetry, Research
Type: Craft Class
Genre: Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Journalism, Memoir, Research
How can poetics serve our most socially urgent writing? Writing about race [for example] is a polemic,” writes Cathy Park Hong, “but also a lyric, in that our inner consciousness is knotted with contradictions.” To investigate this convergence, this course explores the creative nonfiction resistance essay. We will read contemporary works by Aisha Sabatini Sloan, José Orduña, Sarah de Leeuw, and Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas—and, in honor the essay’s genre-defying roots, we will also read hybrid/fluid/genre-contested works by writers such as Tommy Pico and Claudia Rankine.