Rebecca Cook

Rebecca Cook writes prose and poetry and is especially interested in work that defies genre and labels, such as the lyric essay and the “fictitious” essay. She received her BA in English literature and her MA in rhetoric and composition from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she currently teaches; in 2009 she completed her MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was a Bread Loaf Scholar in fiction in 2009, and she has a chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, available from Dancing Girl Press.