Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook is an author, poet, librettist, and scholar. Born in Gibraltar, she spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset. She has been the British Academy Chatterton Lecturer, a Hawthornden Fellow, and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She has written for publications including the London Review of Books, is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of the acclaimed novel Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA) which, in a performance version, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh and has been performed at the National Theatre. She wrote the libretto for Francis Grier’s The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC. A new collection of poems, When I Kiss the Sky, is forthcoming. She lives in London.