Sheena Cook

Sheena grew up on her family farm in the north of Scotland, has a law degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, an MFA in Literature and Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars, Vermont, US and an MA in Crime Writing (distinction) from the University of East Anglia, UK. 

Her short stories and novel extracts have appeared in the UEA Crime Fiction Anthology 2024, Beached, Two Serious Ladies, Literary Orphans, The Southampton Review, Gutter Magazine, The Potomac Review and Inertia.

In 2018 she was a Hawthornden Fellow and in 2018/2019 she was a Bookends Fellow at Stony Brook University in New York, during which she worked on her manuscript A TENDER HATE with mentor Meg Wolitzer.

Her new novel, MEN WOULD KILL FOR THIS, was shortlisted for the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2024. Excerpts from the novel were long listed for The World of Interiors Writing Competition 2024 and won two Scottish Arts Club awards.

She divides her time between Baltimore, Maryland and Edinburgh, Scotland.