Méira Cook

Méira Cook (born May 14, 1964) is a novelist and poet born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now residing in Winnipeg, Canada.

Academic career

Méira Cook received her MA from University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1988; her thesis was a Lacanian reading of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, She worked as a journalist before she moved to Canada in 1991, where she enrolled at the University of Manitoba and received her PhD in Canadian Literature. Cook taught creative writing classes at the University of Manitoba, was an editor for Prairie Fire, Cook's Nightwatching, won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

Works Text Into Flesh: A Lacanian Reading Of Selected Short Stories By I.B. Singer, 1992 Fine Grammar of Bones, 1993 Toward a Catalogue of Falling, 1996 The Blood Girls, 1998 Slovenly Love, 2003 Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women, 2005 Field Marks: Poetry of Don Mckay, 2006 A Walker in the City, 2011 House on Sugarbush Road, 2012 Monologue Dogs, 2015 Nightwatching, 2015 Once More with Feeling, 2017 The Full Catastrophe, 2022

Awards First Place Prize CBC Literary Awards in 2007 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2013 Inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize 2012 Margaret Laurence Award For Fiction