At Reader's Digest, Cook specializes in writing "Drama in Real Life" articles.
Recently, she contributed two chapters to a Reader’s Digest hardcover book, Survival Against the Odds.
Cook has also published in Walrus, Elm Street, the National Post, The Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen.
She has won four national journalism awards, including a 2005 National Magazine Award in the category of Politics and Public Interest, for an article published in The Walrus about the Sudan called "The Peace Wager".
Cook's non-fiction book about the Northern Uganda/Sudan wars, Stolen Angels [1] is the source for the film Girl Soldier starring Uma Thurman,[2] which was in pre-production in 2009.