Méira Cook received her MA from University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1988; her thesis was a Lacanian reading of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer,[1] She worked as a journalist before she moved to Canada in 1991, where she enrolled at the University of Manitoba and received her PhD in Canadian Literature.
[2] Cook taught creative writing classes at the University of Manitoba, was an editor for Prairie Fire,[3] and was the Carol Shields writer in residence at the University of Winnipeg in 2018.
In 2012 her poem "The Devil's Advocate" won the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize.
[3] In 2013 her first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.
[4] Cook's Nightwatching, won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.