Nan Cohen
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She was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, and graduated from Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
Her poetry collections are Rope Bridge (Cherry Grove, 2005) and Unfinished City (Gunpowder Press, 2007). Cohen's poems have appeared in Tikkun, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women's Literature,[2] Ploughshares[3] Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Nimrod, The San Francisco Review, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Hayden's Ferry Review,[1] and other magazines and anthologies.
Cohen has taught literature and creative writing at Viewpoint School, community college, and university levels, at the Stanford Medical School,[1] and in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles.
Awards
Her awards and honors include a 2003 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award.[3] She also has received a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in poetry at Stanford University.[2]
Works
- "A Newborn Girl at Passover", poemhunter
- "A Northern Winter", "Rope Bridge", "Distinguished Poet of a Small Country", "Horatio", Cherry Grove
- "Girder", Verse Daily
- Rope Bridge. Wordtech Communications. March 2005. ISBN 978-1-932339-77-2.
Notes
- ^ a b c [1] Web page titled "Nan Cohen", accessed November 19, 2006 Archived November 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b [2] National Endowment of the Arts Web site, Web page titled "Writer's Corner", accessed November 19, 2006
- ^ a b [3] Web site for Ploughshares, Web page titled "Authors and articles ... Nan Cohen", Web page last updated "09/08/06", accessed November 19, 2006
External links
- "Author's blog"
- [4] "Rope Bridge"
- Napa Writer's Conference