ABOUT

Richard Cooke is a multi-award winning author, reporter and screenwriter.

The author of three books, he is the former US correspondent and current contributing editor to the The Monthly magazine, the former sports editor of The Saturday Paper, and the former arts editor of Time Out Sydney. For a time he edited The Chaser newspaper.

He has been published by many others, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, WIRED and the Paris Review. His work has been selected for the Best of Longform and Best Australian Essays multiple times.

In 2018 he won the Mumbrella Publish Award Columnist of the Year award, and was a finalist for the Walkley-Pascall Award for arts criticism. In 2023 he won the 2023 June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism in the mid-year Walkley Awards, and the Walkley Award for Feature Writing Long (Over 4000 Words).

He is represented by the Wylie Agency, and has taught non-fiction writing at the Faber Academy, the Judith Neilson Institute and elsewhere. His next book is about Wikipedia.