Quick Facts
Biography
Carolyn Cooke (born on Mount Desert Island, Maine) is an American short story writer and novelist.
Life
Cooke is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts writing program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Cooke's stories have appeared in numerous publications including AGNI, New England Review, The Paris Review and Ploughshares.
She lives in Point Arena, California with her husband, poet Randall Babtkis.
Awards
Her novel, Daughters of the Revolution (2011) was a finalist for the Flaherty Dunnan First Novel Prize (2011) and was named one of the top ten books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and was among the Reviewers' Favorite books of 2011 by The New Yorker magazine.
The Bostons, Cooke's first collection of short stories (2001) won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2002) for a first book and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Works
- What the millions want: stories, Columbia University, 1986
Anthologies
O. Henry Award
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Best American Short Stories
- The Best American Short Stories 1997
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