Trish Cook

Trish is the author of five young adult novels, including Notes from the Blender and A Really Awesome Mess. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s Graham School program in Creative Nonfiction, she is currently working on a collection of essays/rants/tangents (Write on: One author’s epic quest to get the f*@k over all the self-doubt, false starts, and unhappy endings to rediscover the joy of writing) about the agony and ecstasy of being a writer. In her spare time, Trish rows with a masters crew, most recently competing in Masters Nationals and the Head of the Charles Regatta. She dreams of being on The Amazing Race, but the closest she’s ever come was being chosen as a finalist for casting on I Survived a Japanese Game Show (and unfortunately did not survive that last casting cut).