American · b. 1963
Diane Cook's "The New Wilderness" was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, depicting a mother and daughter surviving in one of Earth's last wild places as civilization collapses. The American author worked as a radio producer for This American Life before turning to fiction. Her debut story collection "Man V. Nature" established her interest in humans confronting environmental extremity. Cook writes speculative fiction grounded in ecological anxiety.