News & Events

News

• The Art of Disobedience: Essays on Form, Fiction, and Influence, K. L. Cook's new collection of craft essays, was published in April 2020. 
  
• ​Cook's third collection of linked short stories, Marrying Kind, was published in fall 2019.  
  
• Cook's debut collection of poems, Lost Soliloquies, was also published in fall 2019. 
• "​The Secret Story," an essay from Cook's The Art of Disobedience, was 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

• November 2019. At the Spalding University MFA in Writing fall 2019 residency, Cook gave a reading from Marrying Kind and Lost Soliloquies and delivered two lectures: "The Art of Disobedience" and "Revealing the Inner Life: Strategies for Creating and Exploring Characters." 
• November 2019. Cook was a visiting author at the Bluegrass Writers Studio of the MFA Program at Eastern Kentucky University. 
• March 2020. Cook chaired a panel, "Innovative Partnerships: The Advantages of Publishing with Small Presses," at the 2020 AWP Conference ​​in San Antonio, Texas
• 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. ​