Corinna Cook is the author of a new Alaska-Yukon collection, Permafrost Is an Archive (2026) and Leavetakings (2020). Her current project is an NEH-funded history about the early years of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. READ BIO.

Criticism and Theory

A Clockwork for the Land in Beth Peterson’s “Cairns” – Essay Daily

December 10, 2020
Creative Nonfiction and Lived Experiences of Power – a talk for the 2020 UAS Power and Privilege Symposium

November 4, 2020
The Shadow of Pandemic in Alaska Literature – Denali Sunrise Publications

September 8, 2020
Bench overlooking a slough of the Porcupine River in Old Crow, Yukon Territory.

Try an “I”: Essayistic Narration for Journalists – Pedagogy and American Literary Studies

November 18, 2019
Listening the Lyric Essay – New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

May 21, 2018
Documentation and Myth: On Daniel Janke’s How People Got Fire – Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies

March 10, 2018
Nonfiction as Lens – Brevity Blog

June 21, 2016
Eating Our Neighbors: Giorgio Agamben, Animality, and Essaying North – Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies

November 21, 2015

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