Diane Marie Cook is an American writer currently based in New York.
She began her radio career as an intern, then producer at This American Life.
She attended Columbia University for her MFA and a few years later published her first book, the short-story collection Man V. Nature.
Her debut novel, The New Wilderness (2020), was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize,[2] with an announced television series adaptation with Cook writing and producing along with director Matt Reeves.
[4] She has taught writing and literature at Columbia University and at the University of Michigan's New England Literature Program, in which students and teachers live and study together in a rustic camp, foregoing all technology and traditional classroom methods.