Rebecca Cook is a self-teaching visual artist and writer who was raised in north Georgia and currently lives in Chattanooga, TN. She is a member of AVA and of CLEARSTORY ARTS GALLERY, and frequently posts her drawings here, and on SUBSTACK, Facebook, and Instagram.
Cook has published two collections of poems–The Terrible Baby (2006) and I Will Not Give Over (2013); a novel–Click (2014); a bilingual collection of poems with Romanian poet Talvescu Dumitru The Shadow of Water (2016); and an erasure, The Best Man in the World (2017), with poet Jenny Sadre-Orafai.
Cook’s poems, stories, and essays have been published in print and online journals including The Georgia Review, The New England Review, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown. Her poem, “Onion Skin” (Psaltery & Lyre, 2021), was nominated for a Pushcart. Read Cook’s work here.
Cook works as co-translator with Olimpia Iacob and together they have translated numerous Romanian poems and several poetry collections to the English. Recently Cook provided commentary in The Seventh Quarry’s special issue (English/Romanian, 2019) dedicated to the late poet and dramatist Robin Metz, and in Shaking the Feathers of Sleep (English/Romanian, 2022), a celebration of the poems and art of the late British surrealist poet John Digby.
Contact~ rebeccacookwriter@gmail.com