Méira Cook (1965‒ ) is a poet, novelist, and literary critic. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and worked as a journalist in South Africa for several years. Cook earned a PhD in Canadian Literature from the University of Manitoba, and has become widely published as a fiction writer and poet. She has won the CBC Literary award for poetry, the Walrus Prize for poetry, and the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award, among others. Cook has been the poetry editor for Prairie Fire Magazine, and was the Carol Shields Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture in 2018, as well as being the Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library. She has published three novels, titled The House on Sugarbush Road (2012), Nightwatching (2015), and Once More with Feeling (2017), and five poetry books, A Fine Grammar of Bones (1993), Toward a Catalogue of Falling (1996), Slovenly Love (2003), A Walker in the City (2011), and Monologue Dogs (2015). Her two essay collections are entitled Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women (2005) and Field Marks: The Poetry of Done McKay (2006). Cook lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Cook, Méira. “About.” Méira Cook. www.meiracook.com/about/.
“Meira Cook.” The University of Winnipeg. www.uwinnipeg.ca/english/past-writer-in-residence/meira-cook.html.
“Méira Cook.” University of Manitoba: Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. umanitoba.ca/centres/ccwoc/writer_in_residence/MeiraCook.html.