Paul Cook was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1950 and has lived all of his life in Arizona with the exception of three years in Salt Lake City from 1978-1981 where he studied English at the University of Utah, from which he received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1981.
University of Utah.
He currently resides in Tempe, Arizona and has been teaching at Arizona State University since 1982. He has taught a wide range of courses from creative writing courses to literature courses, both British and American. He also teaches Arizona State University"s first science fiction class, Engineer 369: Science Fiction Studies.
He has taught authors as diverse as Thomas Pynchon, John Doctorate. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Carlos Castaneda, Ezra Pound, and John O"Hara.
He currently writes book reviews for Galaxy"s Edge, an online science fiction magazine edited by Mike Resnick.
