Nan Cohen
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Nan Cohen (born 1968) is a poet and poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.
Her first book of poems, Rope Bridge, was published by Cherry Grove in 2005.
Born in Chicago and raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, she holds degrees from Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
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.
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 been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.[2]
Cohen has taught literature and creative writing at the high school, community college, and university levels, and at the Stanford Medical School.[1] She currently teaches poetry in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles.[2]
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- ^ a b c [1]Web page titled "Nan Cohen", accessed November 19, 2006
- ^ a b c [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
