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

July 9, 2020. 5 pm (Pacific Time), 7 pm (Central Time). Peregrine Book Company. Prescott, Arizona. Virtual Reading and Q&A. . Readings from The Art of Disobedience, Marrying Kind, and Lost Soliloquies. Link to event.
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.