Christina
Cooke
Christina Cooke’s fiction and non-fiction have previously appeared in PRISM international, The Caribbean Writer, Prairie Schooner, Epiphany: A Literary Journal, and elsewhere. A MacDowell Fellow, she holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. “Homecoming” is an excerpt from her debut novel, Broughtupsy, which will be published by Catapult in 2024. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.
Award History

Works recognized by WT
- Awards
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
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