He strings up a fly rod to chase after sea-run trout. He bushwhacks through rugged mountain forests in search of edible mushrooms. One reviewer picked up on that: “Armed with nothing more than a Hawaiian sling spearfishing tool, he (Cook) finds himself free-diving in icy Puget Sound in hopes of spearing a snaggletooth lingcod. One day, when he printed out almost a year’s blog posts, he noticed a theme running through the material-foraging. He also began writing a blog called, which he’s still publishing. There, Cook, who coincidentally had received the same residency 11 years earlier, published his first book, Fat of the Land. Silano was thrilled to receive the PEN Northwest’s Margery Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, so she and Cook-who had spent eight years as a senior editor at Amazon-used the stipend to leave Seattle for a cabin on the Rogue River in Oregon. There, he met his wife, Martha Silano, ’93, who is among the country’s most highly regarded poets. In his mid-20s, he came to Seattle for graduate school in creative writing at the UW Department of English. The New England native wrote for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Berkeley Voice, worked as a wrangler on a dude ranch, ski bummed in New Mexico and caddied at a golf course (he once carried the bags of Frank and Kathy Lee Gifford).
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