"Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake"
Seal Press, December 2008
Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake, is a collection of essays, poetry, vintage images, art, and documents that tell of the complex relationship Crooks had with her dead, drug addict, con-artist mother. Throughout the memoir, Crooks comes to terms with her past as an abandoned child, and explains the losses of her 6 older siblings while discovering the true identity of her own biological father. All of these haunting elements combine to tell a multi-layered story about identity, grief, and the consequences of truth."
"A Gag Reflex"
Blogspot.com, Summer 2004
Cori Crooks first made heads turn with her art/life blog, A Gag Reflex beginning in 2004. She boldly documented a quest for the truth about her paternity and then aired the DNA test results online. Her offbeat prose quickly earned her local press, respect amongst top bloggers and published writers, a cult following of fans eager for more of her quirky story telling, and literary representation with Wendy Sherman Associates Inc., NYC.