News & Events

News & Media

• Read "The Wonderlands of Charles Baxter," Cook's essay in The Good River Review. September 2022.
  
• Read "Parts & Wholes," Cook's essay in The Good River Review. March 2022.
• Read "Bust," Cook's story in Bloom. November 2021.
• K. L. Cook named the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Faculty Fellow in the Arts.  Iowa State University. July 2021.
• K. L. Cook receives the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring. Iowa State University. April 2021.
• K. L. Cook receives a Center for Excellence in Arts & Humanities (CEAH) grant to complete research for a new book project, The Cyclical Imagination: Short Story Cycles, Linked Stories, and Novels-in-Stories. Iowa State University. March 2021.
• K. L. Cook podcast interview on Writer's Voice.  July 29, 2020.
• YouTube recording of Peregrine Book Company Event. July 9, 2020.
• The Art of Disobedience: Essays on Form, Fiction, and Influence, K. L. Cook's new collection of craft essays, published May 2020. 
• ​Cook's third collection of linked short stories, Marrying Kind, published November 2019.  
• Cook's debut collection of poems, Lost Soliloquies, published November 2019. 
• "​The Secret Story," an essay from Cook's The Art of Disobedience, published in Bloom in November 2019.  

Cook with students, alums, and colleagues of Iowa State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Lakeside Lab--Lake Okoboji, Iowa (October 2019)

Events

Upcoming & Recent Events

• November 16-18, 2022. Louisville, Kentucky. Cook will be giving a lecture on "The Art of the Very Short Story" and teaching a post-MFA workshop on short story cycles, novels-in-stories, and memoirs-in-essays at the fall residency of Spalding University's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.
• July 18-25, 2022. Paris, France. Cook will be one of the faculty members for Spalding University's Naslund-Mann MFA in Writing Program International Residency.  
• November 13-20, 2021. Spalding University's School of Creative & Professional Writing. Fall MFA Residency. Louisville, Kentucky.
• May 27, 2021. Festival of Contemporary Writing.  Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program. Reading with Maggie Smith, Silas House, Crystal Wilkinson, and Kathleen Driskell.
• May 16, 2021. Faculty Book-in-Common Discussion of Cook's Marrying Kind: Stories. Spalding University MFA Program's Spring Residency. 
• 2021 AWP Conference (virtual)
  • Friday, March 5 (10-11 am) - Panel Chair,  "Beyond How-To: The Art of the Craft Essay" (with Margot Livesey, Sven Birkerts, and Christopher Castellani).
  • Saturday, March 6 (3-4 pm): K. L. Cook Author Meet & Greet.
  • Saturday, March 6: Reading and Reception: Iowa State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment.​