Christina Cooke’s debut novel Broughtupsy was published in January 2024 and has been named a “must-read” title by more than 20 publications across the U.S., U.K., Canada, and the Caribbean—including The Atlantic, ELLE, Cosmopolitan UK, CBC Books, Electric Literature, LitHub, and more. A MacDowell Fellow and Journey Prize winner, she holds a Master of Arts from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, PRISM International, Prairie Schooner, and Epiphany among others, and is forthcoming in fall 2024 from Michigan Quarterly Review. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.