Nancy Louise Cook



Recently Published Prose
Forthcoming in Alternating Currents Press, Footnote:
         Mad, Mad, Mad as a March Hare
          When Darkness Comes
          Resistance Is Fatal
Elemental Music, Toho Journal (2019)
​Threshing, Minnesota Home Anthology , Flexible Press (2019)
Railroad Rags, Existere (2019)
llluminations and Illusions
,  Darkhouse Press, Sanctuary anthology (2018)
The After Life,  Darkhouse Press, Sanctuary anthology (2018)
The Air Removed, The Ocotillo Review (2018)
Uncertain Endings, 
Litbreak (2017)


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​Recently Published Poetry

From Recently  Completed Collection
Whatever Happened to Dancing in the Street?, Good Writing from a Bad Year (2021)
Standing on the Edge, The London Reader (2020)
Machu Picchu, recomp journal (2020)
Life’s Breath, The Poeming Pigeon (2020)
Leap Year Love Sonnet, Channel Mag (2020)
Gulf Oysters Are Dying, Humana Obscura (2020)

Daphne, Reincarnate, The Virginia Poetry Review (2020)
Workers’ Caucus, So It Goes:The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum (2020)


Other Recent Publications
Reclamation,
Michigan Quarterly (forthcoming 2020)
Waiting for the Tsunami, Sheila-na-gig (forthcoming 2020)

Southern Minnesota Geography Lesson, Raven Chronicles, Take a Stand: Art Against Hate (2019)
Noticing, The Tangerine (2019)
Myself  & Her Majesty's Government, ​Fieldstone Review (2019)
Sentence Structure, Upon Waking: 58 Voices Speak Out from the Shadows (2019)
The Music Madness, After the Equinox (2019)


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In Progress

Liddletown
            
This collection of "flash essays," still in infancy, is centered in Muncie, Indiana, the site of the 1920s
iconic sociological study Middletown. 
            
Walking with Ghosts
            With this new project, I am undertaking to write a book-length, hybrid work of fiction, poetry, and art connecting Civil War history with current issues. The story follows a young woman, Kebbeh, as she struggles to forge her own future. Returning to her family home in Gettysburg in the summer of 2017, after deciding to drop out of her college journalism program, Kebbeh comes into contact with a number of characters who were living at the time of the Civil War and have unfinished business to attend to.


Recently Completed

At Home in Fermanagh & Omagh: A Literary Atlas
          A compendium of poetry and prose by writers in Northern Ireland, including ten new works of mine.  Published and distributed by the Fermanagh & Omagh District Arts Council, Eniiskillen, Northerm Ireland.

When Darkness Comes: A Collection of Stories
            This collection comes out of a residency on the grounds of a former state mental hospital in western Minnesota. While there, I spent many hours at the local historical society combing through news items about the hospital and its residents from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Excerpts from those news items have become epigraphs to the works of fiction that comprise this collection.

 


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