Glenna Cook

Glenna Cook, born in 1936, in Olympia, Washington, spent most of her life in Tacoma, Washington. "Thresholds," her first book of poems, was named finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2018. A recent widow after 63 years of marriage, she has nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She received a degree in English Literature in 1994 from the University of Puget Sound, graduating Magna cum Laude at the age of 58, when she launched her career as a poet. "Thresholds" is mainly about family life, growing up with a sister with Down syndrome, marriage, and death, especially the death of her oldest son, in 2016. She is now in her eighties and has published her second book, "Shapes of Time," which broadens its view to include more current events, her philosophy on life, and, of course, more about death and the possibilities in life as one grows older.