Born in Jamaica, Christina Cooke is a fiction and poetry writer who bounces between the U.S. and Canada. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as The Caribbean Writer and Epiphany: A Literary Journal, and her poetry in Matrix Magazine and Poetry is Dead, among others. She has taught at universities in both the U.S. and Canada, and served on the editorial boards for journals such as Room, The Fiddlehead, and The Iowa Review. She holds both a M.A. from the University of New Brunswick and a M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
At MacDowell she completed the closing chapters of her novel He Carried Me Out to Sea.
