meira cook

Meira Cook is the award-winning author of the novels The House on Sugarbush Road, which won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; Nightwatching, which won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction; Once More with Feeling, which won the Carol Shields City of Winnipeg Award, and The Full Catastrophe, which won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. She has also published five poetry collections, most recently Monologue Dogs. She has won the CBC Poetry Prize and the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, the Carol Shields Writer in Residence at the University of Winnipeg, and the writer in residence at the Winnipeg Public Library. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, she now lives in Winnipeg.