Kerry Cohen

Kerry Cohen (born September 15, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American author. She also writes as Kerry Cohen Hoffmann

Cohen grew up in suburban New Jersey.^[1] She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon and an MA in counseling psychology from Pacific University. A practicing psychotherapist and writing instructor, she lives with her husband and two sons in Portland, Oregon.^[1][2] She is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, based on her own promiscuity during her teens. In 2006 she published Easy, a young adult novel.^[3]

She teaches creative writing for Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City and the Red Earth low-residency MFA program.

Bibliography

• The Truth of Memoir: How To Write About Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity (Writer's Digest Books, 2014)
• Easy (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
  • 2006 ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults and 2006 Oregon Book Award finalist
• Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Hyperion, 2008)
• The Good Girl (Delacorte, 2008)
• It's Not You, It's Me (Delacorte, 2009)
  • 2010 Oregon Book Award finalist
• Seeing Ezra (Seal Press, 2011)
• Dirty Little Secrets (Sourcebooks, 2011)
• Spent (Seal Press, 2014)

External links

• Official site

References

1. 1 2 "Kerry Cohen On Her Publishing And Her Promiscuous Past". The Huffington Post. 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2008-08-20. 
2. ↑ Cohen, Kerry (2008-06-19). "Confessions of a psychotherapist: ‘Some girls turn to drugs or alcohol. I chose promiscuity’". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 2008-08-20. 
3. ↑ "Author Details for Kerry Cohen". Random House. Retrieved 2008-08-20.