Marjorie Kowalski Cole (July 20, 1953 – December 4, 2009) was an American writer of poetry, short stories and novels.
She won the 2004 Bellwether Prize (for previously unpublished works of fiction which address issues of social justice) with her first novel Correcting the Landscape.
Correcting the Landscape deals with the travails of the editor of an alternative weekly paper in Fairbanks, Alaska, his growing friendship with one of his staff, and his struggle against an environmentally damaging development.
A poem from that collection, Pushkin, about her eponymous cat, was read by Garrison Keillor on his NPR program The Writer's Almanac.
The children come of age and the family makes ends meet partly by running a somewhat shabby lakeside resort during the summers.