celia cook

Celia Cook is a writer based in the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. Celia mostly writes fiction and nonfiction, but has an interest in anything and everything related to writing. 

 

At twelve years old, Celia wrote the first draft of what would become her first self-published novel Rise of the Ieta. After attending George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology for Literary Arts, Celia earned their degrees in English and Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2022.

 

At UMD, they were a part of two living-learning communities: Arts Scholars and the Jimenez Porter Writers' House. Somewhere in that time, she wrote her second novel, Mark of Trusde, and learned how to bookbind for the project Under Currents. After graduating, Celia presented at AwesomeCon in 2023 and began reading for The Rumpus (2022-2025).

 

After two years stranded in Muncie, Indiana, Celia earned their MA in Creative Writing from Ball State University, where they started teaching, began reading for Beautiful Things, and presented at several panels with PCM and NonfictionNow. She was also the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing Program and helped coordinate and run the book festival In Print's 20th Anniversary celebrations. 

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Since graduating, Celia's become the Images Editor for Beautiful Things and started teaching part time. She also began an internship at Corvisiero Literary Agency, where she curates craft talks on social media and manages query submissions. They continue to bookbind in the coptic stitch and now carve linocut stamps of fish. 

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Some other wild things about Celia: she's traveled to all fifty states, Canada, Costa Rica, England, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Greece, and brief trip to the Netherlands. Currently, they are busy writing two books, buying too many cardigans, and baking banana bread.