News & Events

News & Media

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

March 3-7. AWP Conference. San Antonio, Texas. Panel chair: "Innovative Partnerships: The Advantages of Publishing with Small Presses." Reading & book-signing.
July 9, 2020. Peregrine Book Company. Prescott, Arizona. Virtual Reading and Q&A.
July 26, 2020. Reading with Charissa Menefee at First Christian Church in Ames.
Spring-Summer 2020. Due to the Covid-19 crisis, Cook's spring and summer events in Iowa, Texas, Arizona, California, France, and elsewhere have been cancelled or postponed.
March 2021. The 2020 AWP panel in San Antonio that Cook was scheduled to chair, "Beyond How-To: The Art of the Craft Essay," was cancelled because of the Covid-19 crisis. It will be rescheduled for the 2021 AWP Conference in Kansas City.
July 2021. Paris, France. Cook will be one of the faculty members for Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program International Residency. Originally scheduled for 2020. Rescheduled for next summer.