Corinna Cook

Corinna Cook is an essayist. She is the author of Leavetakings (2020) and Permafrost Is an Archive and Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands (coming in March 2026). She 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 book project documents an oral history on the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. Corinna serves as nonfiction faculty in Alaska Pacific University’s low-res MFA program in creative writing. More at corinnacook.com.