Jia-Rui Cook

Jia-Rui Cook is a writer, editor, and producer based in Los Angeles. She won the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize in 2013 and later served as the editor of the nonprofit journalism and events organization. A former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, Cook works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she tells stories about Mars rovers, Saturn orbiters, and satellites studying Earth.