Méira Cook

Méira Cook is the award-winning author of the novels The House on Sugarbush Road, which won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and Nightwatching, which won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. She has also published five poetry collections, most recently Monologue Dogs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and for the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. She won the CBC Poetry Prize in 2007 and the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize in 2012. In 2011 she served as Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, and was the 2013–14 Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, she now lives in Winnipeg.

Books by Méira Cook

The Full Catastrophe

Once More with Feeling

Nightwatching

Monologue Dogs

The House on Sugarbush Road

A Walker in the City

Field Marks

Writing Lovers

Slovenly Love

Blood Girls, The

Toward a Catalogue of Falling

Fine Grammar of Bones