Diane Cook

Diane Cook is the author of the story collection Man V. Nature, forthcoming from Harper in October, 2014. Her fiction can be found in Harper’s, Granta, One Story, Tin House, Zoetrope, Guernica and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and on This American Life, where she worked as a radio producer for six years. She won the 2012 Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction and was awarded a scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and residencies from Yaddo, The Vermont Studio Center, Playa, The Albee Foundation, and The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She earned an M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow. She lives in Oakland, CA.