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Amy Cook, JD Amy Cook is an attorney, freelance writer and seminar leader. She serves on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for the Creative Arts. She began her legal career in 1993 in Colorado, and then moved back to her hometown of Chicago to work in legal publishing. In 1999, she went to work at a literary agency before starting her own shop in 2001. Cook is Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Bar Association’s magazine, The Record; a contributing editor at Writer’s Digest magazine (and former author and creator of their Ask the Lawyer column); and on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for the Creative Arts. She has also served as a judge in writing contests sponsored by the CBA and Writer’s Digest. www.whatiwishyouknew.com is delighted to have Amy as an advisor. She serves on the advisory board of Slow Food Chicago, and is the Scholarship Chair for UCLA Alumni Association of Chicago. She will be a volunteer at Chicago’s new First Amendment Freedom Museum in fall 2006. She frequently speaks on getting published and legal issues affecting writers at places such as the Newberry Library, University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Education, Columbia College, UIC, DePaul, the Chicago Bar Association, local libraries, and to many professional associations and writer groups. Cook holds a J.D. and a master’s in journalism from Drake University, and a B.A. in mass communications from UCLA. She lives in Geneva, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, with her husband Bill.
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