Corinna Cook is the author of Leavetakings, an essay collection (University of Alaska Press, 2020). Supported by a 2018-19 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2018 Alaska Literary Award, and a 2020 Project Award from the Rasmuson Foundation, she is currently writing an ekphrastic essay collection that looks at Alaska-Yukon artwork and searches for ways to live with colonial history. Corinna holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri.