Méira Cook

Méira Cook is an award-winning poet, novelist, and literary critic. She was born in Johannesburg where she worked as a freelance arts and culture correspondent before moving to Winnipeg. Dr. Cook holds a PhD specializing in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia.. Her poetry won first place in the CBC Literary Awards in 2007, has been published in The Best Canadian Poetry of 2008, and has been featured in Winnipeg Transit's "Poetry in Motion" program. Méira's first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2013. She has been the poetry editor of Prairie Fire Magazine and has taught creative writing classes at the University of Manitoba.