Greg Cook
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BiographyGregory M. Cook was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. As one of three poets in his immediate family, he has made writers and their survival a personal and a professional study. His biography of his close friend of twenty years, One Heart, One Way/ Alden Nowlan: A Writer's Life, was undertaken following a two-year appointment as writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo. More recently he has lived in Toronto, Fredericton, and Saint John, New Brunswick, where he is writing a biography of his friend, novelist Ernest Buckler (1908-1984).
Cook has read from his works in schools and universities in all Canadian provinces, and the Yukon where he was in residence at Berton House Writers' Retreat - as well as in Maine and Georgia, USA; England; the Netherlands; and Germany. He is a member of Writers' Union of Canada, The League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, and an honourary member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
PublicationsEditor, Alden Nowlan: Essays on His Works. Guernica Editions, 2006. ISBN 1-55071-254-3 / 978-1-55071-254-4.
Songs of the Wounded: New and Selected poems. Black Moss Press, 2004. ISBN 0-88753-389-2.
One Heart, One Way. Alden Nowlan: A Writer's Life. Pottersfield Press, 2003. ISBN 1-895900-59-X.
Untying the Tongue. Black Moss Press, 2002. ISBN 0-88753-368-X.
My Diary of Earth. Pottersfield Press, 1987. ISBN 0-919001-44-0.
Love in Flight. Ragweed Press, 1985. ISBN 0-920304-42-7.
Love En Route. Goose Lane/Fiddlehead. ISBN 0-86492-034-2.
Love from Backfields. Breakwater, 1980. ISBN 0-919948-89-8.
AwardsFinalist for the 2004 Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award and 2004 The Dartmouth Book Award (Non- Fiction); 'One Heart, One Way'
