Sophie Cooke
Sophie Cooke grew up in rural Perthshire and studied social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Aged 24, she won runner-up prize in the MacAllan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, then the biggest open short story award in Europe. This story later formed the opening pages of her debut novel The Glass House, short-listed for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Cooke was awarded a New Writer's Bursary and subsequently a full Writer's Bursary by the Scottish Arts Council. Her second novel Under The Mountain was published in 2008. Critics have drawn parallels between Cooke's work and that of Virginia Woolf, as well as that of contemporary screenwriters such as Thomas Vinterberg. Cooke continues to write poetry and short stories - broadcast on BBC Radio, and published in anthologies and in literary magazines in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Prague, Belgrade and Zagreb - alongside her novels. She is also a photographer and her work has been exhibited in a touring exhibition in Germany. She recently returned from living in Berlin, where she also worked as an actress, and is currently based in Edinburgh.
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