Carolyn Cooke

Carolyn Cooke (born on Mount Desert Island, Maine) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

Cooke is a graduate of Smith College and holds an Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts writing program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Cooke's stories have appeared in numerous publications including AGNI, New England Review, The Paris Review and Ploughshares.[1]

She lives in Point Arena, California with her husband, poet Randall Babtkis.

Awards

Her novel, Daughters of the Revolution (2011) was a finalist for the Flaherty Dunnan First Novel Prize (2011)[2] and was named one of the top ten books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle[3] and was among the Reviewers' Favorite books of 2011 by The New Yorker magazine.

The Bostons, Cooke's first collection of short stories (2001) won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2002) for a first book and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[4][5]

Works

O. Henry Award

Best American Short Stories

References

  1. http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1819
  2. "Center for Fiction Announces First Novel Finalists". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  3. Susanna, Sonnenberg (June 4, 2011). "Daughters of the Revolution". Daughters of the Revolution (SF Chronicle). Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  4. Book Review; A Fierce Portrait of Northeast Painted by Troubled Characters, Los Angeles Times July 5, 2001
  5. Sensitive, evocative stories spend a summer on Maine's shores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 10, 2001

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