Corinna Cook is the author of two essay collections: Permafrost Is an Archive (2026) and Leavetakings (2020). Her writing blends research with reverie and has appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Alaska Magazine.
Corinna is a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship awardee, a former Fulbright Fellow, an Alaska Literary Award recipient, and a Rasmuson Foundation grantee. Her current project is an oral history collaboration with Marie Adams Carroll about the early years of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (NEH fellowship announcement here, via Native News Online).
Corinna holds degrees from Pomona College and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and she earned a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. She serves as nonfiction faculty in Alaska Pacific University’s low-res MFA program in creative writing, and offers consultation and developmental editing services through her humanities microbusiness, Outer Point Essays.
