| “K.
L. Cook has whopping gifts, and this is a splendid book.” |
— Robert Boswell |
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 Born
in Dumas, Texas, K.L. Cook grew up in Houston, Dallas, Amarillo, and Las Vegas.
He teaches creative writing and literature at Prescott
College in Arizona and is also a member of the graduate faculty at the Spalding University MFA Program for Writers. He lives in Prescott with his wife, playwright Charissa
Menefee, and their four children.
Cook is the author of two books of fiction: a novel, The Girl from Charnelle (William Morrow/Harper Collins 2006), and a collection of linked stories dealing with the same family of characters, Last Call (University of Nebraska Press 2004). Last Call won the inaugural Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.
His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Poets & Writers, Arts & Letters, The Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, Harvard Review, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Colorado Review, Alligator Juniper, Puerto del Sol, and Witness.
He won the Grand Prize in the 2002 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Arts Series. Cook has also been
honored with an Arizona Commission
on the Arts Fiction Fellowship, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and artist
residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, the Millay Colony for the Arts,
and The Vermont Studio Center. He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the
Sewanee Writers’ Conference and winner of a City of Charleston Literary
Arts Award.
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