K.L. Cook

About K.L.

K. L. is the author of six books of fiction, poetry, and essays, including The Art of Disobedience (craft essays based on his Spalding lectures); a collection of poems, Lost Soliloquies; a novel, The Girl from Charnelle; and three collections of linked stories, Last Call, Love Songs for the Quarantined, and most recently, Marrying Kind. He has won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction, and the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, among other awards, and his work has appeared widely in such journals, magazines, and anthologies as Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, One Story, Threepenny Review, Poets & Writers, The Writer’s Chronicle, Best of the West, and Best American Mystery Stories. A member of the Spalding faculty since 2004, he is also Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University.