Glenna Cook

This is Glenna Cook's second full-length collection ofpoems. The first, Thresholds, was published by MoonPathPress in 2017, and was a finalist for the Washington StateBook Award for Poetry in 2018.Cook grew up in Olympia, Washington, where, atage 18, she married her husband, Kenneth. They had 3children (their oldest, a son, died of cancer in 2016 at age 60), and have 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Aftera 25-year career with the telephone company, she retiredfrom U.S. West...See more

This is Glenna Cook's second full-length collection ofpoems. The first, Thresholds, was published by MoonPathPress in 2017, and was a finalist for the Washington StateBook Award for Poetry in 2018.Cook grew up in Olympia, Washington, where, atage 18, she married her husband, Kenneth. They had 3children (their oldest, a son, died of cancer in 2016 at age 60), and have 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Aftera 25-year career with the telephone company, she retiredfrom U.S. West Communications in 1990, then immediatelyenrolled in college. She graduated from the University ofPuget Sound Magna cum Laude in 1994 at age 58 with a BAin English Literature. While at university, she won the HearstEssay Prize for the Humanities and the Nixeon Civille HandyPrize in poetry. She is a Hedgebrook alumna and a memberof Phi Kappa Phi.She has read her poetry many places in the Puget Soundregion, and published dozens of poems in journals andanthologies, such as Raven Chronicles, Spindrift, crosscurrentreview, Trillium, and Kind of a Hurricane Anthologies.104Her husband died in 2018, after 63 years of marriage.Cook has Parkinson's disease, which she keeps at baywith medicine, diet, and a rigorous exercise program.She serves as an advocate for others with Parkinson'sdisease. She loves reading, watching Masterpiece Theaterand Netflix on TV, taking walks, and interacting withpeople. Two of her favorite sayings are: We make our ownweather, and (from Rumi) What you seek is seeking you. See less