Méira Cook
Méira Cook (born 1964) is an academic and poet born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now residing in Canada. She has 13 published works. Academic career. Méira Cook got her MA from University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1988; her thesis was a Lacanian reading of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 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. Cook taught creative writing classes at the University of Manitoba, was an editor for "Prairie Fire", and was  the Carol Shields writer in residence at the University of Winnipeg in 2018. Poetry and fiction. In 2007 her poetry won first prize in the CBC Literacy awards and then in 2008 her work was published in "The Best Canadian Poetry in 2008". In 2012 her poem "The Devil's Advocate" won the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. In 2013 her first novel, "The House on Sugarbush Road", won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Cook's "Nightwatching," won the Margret Lawrence Award for Fiction.