Born in Jamaica, Christina Cooke is a fiction and poetry writer who bounces between the U.S. and Canada. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as The Caribbean Writer and Epiphany: A Literary Journal, and her poetry in Matrix Magazine and Poetry is Dead, among others. She has taught at universities in both the U.S. and Canada, and served on the editorial boards for journals such as Room, The Fiddlehead, and The Iowa Review. She holds both a M.A. from the University of New Brunswick and a M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At MacDowell she completed the closing chapters of her novel He Carried Me Out to Sea.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Christina Cooke
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Tillson, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
www.christinajcooke.com
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Broughtupsy (Novel)
Studios
Schelling
Christina Cooke worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…