Margie Ruth Cook Profile

Sitting by the trashcans on the 5^th floor Eugene Lang building, Margie Ruth Cook played with the buttons on her shirt while talking about her favorite vacation she took with her three best friends right after she graduated from high school. Driving from her hometown of Chico in northern California, down to Santa Barbara, and then back up through Santa Cruz, and San Francisco she looks around the corner in which we are stationed and smiles.

Cook, who loves to read and says Nancy Drew books are among her favorites, wants to be a dramatic writer for film, television, or theatre. She can play the piano and has taken an interest in guitar and harmonica, although she claims to not be any good. Born on May 26, 1989 Cook has one step-brother who is 15 years older than her. Her brother has one daughter who is two, making her an aunt. With no pets currently she used to have a cat named Billy Bo Bob and a dog named one-eyed Jack and plans to get another cat in the near future. While there are no children in her immediate future she knows that when she does have children they will have names that rhyme, but hopefully for the sake of her children Bart is not among one of her favorites.

Recently moving to Bushwick, Brooklyn from the East Village I can happily report that Cook has her own bedroom and lots of space, a first since living in New York City. Despite asking her if she finds Bushwick to be scary, she laughed and responded, “No, it’s not scary at all. A lot of my friends live here so we all go out and there are plenty of things to do.”

She has never broken a bone but when she was younger she had appendicitis resulting in getting her appendix out, luckily she does not remember it nor does she have a scar. Dislocating her shoulder when she was younger as well, when she was in 7^th grade she fell while running and has a scar on her stomach in the shape of a circle, she told me while grabbing her stomach where I assume the scar must be.

Cook likes music she can dance and sing to, rap, hip-hop, and rock and her favorite show is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an older show but nonetheless a great one! Listed on Cook’s bucket list are learning to speak fluent Italian (she spent last summer in Verona) and to get her work published. If she was going to be sent to jail and was given one last meal it would be a bean, rice, and cheese burrito with hot sauce and sour cream. A fact she does not share with many? She found her first grey hair when she was 18.