Christina Cook is a poet, translator, book critic, and writer. Her first book, the poetry collection A Strange Insomnia (Aldrich Press, 2016), was preceded by two chapbooks, Ricochet (Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press, 2016) and Lake Effect (Finishing Line Press, 2012), the latter of which won the 2012 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Her work has been featured in literary journals across the U.S., Europe, and Australia. She has served as a speechwriter for presidents of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught writing at several universities and colleges. Christina lives in State College, PA, where, in addition to writing, she tends her perennial garden and practices astrology, Reiki, and Tarot. She and her husband, Jeff, have two grown sons.