Rebecca Cook is a 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. Three new pieces from her “Eye-Cognito” series were shown in Clearstory’s summer show–ELSEWHERE, PULLING FORTH THE INVISIBLE.
She is a self-taught artist. “except the Magician who lived up the hill taught her to draw an EYE when she was a little girl. and her mother was an artist. and all those paint by numbers and painting in art classes in grammar school. and a minor in Art History. and being a poet, too. being a poet is part of everything.“
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.
If you are interested in hosting a reading or viewing, or in having Cook teach or host a workshop, please contact her via email– rebeccacookwriter@gmail.com. Mentoring/Editing for writers is also available.