Diane Cook is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer. Her debut collection, Man v Nature (Oneworld, 2015), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is a recipient of a 2016 fellowship form the National Endowment for the Arts, and her stories have appeared in Harper's, Tin House and Granta, and been anthologised in Best American Short Stories. A former producer for the radio show, This American Life, she lives in Brooklyn.