Discipline: Literature

Karin Cook

Discipline: Literature
Region: Provincetown, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992, 1996

Karin Cook graduated from Vassar College and the creative writing program at New York University. An activist and health educator, she currently lives and works in New York City where she works at the development office at The Door, a multiservice youth center.

Studios

Wood

Karin Cook worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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