Nan Cohen (born 1968) is an American poet and teacher. She has published two poetry collections, ''Rope Bridge'' and ''Unfinished City''.
Life
She was raised in
Reisterstown, Maryland, and graduated from
Yale University
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and the
University of California, Los Angeles
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.
Web page titled "Nan Cohen", accessed November 19, 2006
Her poetry collections are ''Rope Bridge'' (Cherry Grove, 2005) and ''Unfinished City'' (Gunpowder Press, 2007).
Cohen's poems have appeared in ''
Tikkun (magazine), Tikkun'', ''
Poetry International'', ''
Prairie Schooner'', ''The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women's Literature'',
[ '' Ploughshares'']
Web site for ''Ploughshares'', Web page titled "Authors and articles ... Nan Cohen", Web page last updated "09/08/06", accessed November 19, 2006[ 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,][ and in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the ]University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...
. Since 2003, she has served as the poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. In 2017, she competed in the ''Jeopardy!'' Teachers Tournament, finishing as first runner-up. She lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles
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.
Awards
Her awards and honors include a 2003 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts
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) Fellowship and a 2005 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.[ She also has received a ]Stegner Fellowship
The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty m ...
and Jones Lectureship in poetry at Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
.
National Endowment of the Arts Web site, Web page titled "Writer's Corner", accessed November 19, 2006
Works
"A Newborn Girl at Passover", ''poemhunter''
* ttp://www.versedaily.org/2005/girder.shtml "Girder", ''Verse Daily''*
Notes
External links
"Author's blog"
"Rope Bridge"
Napa Writer's Conference
''Ploughshares''
"Abraham and Isaac I"
"Abraham and Isaac: II"
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Writers from Chicago
University of Southern California faculty
Yale University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
1968 births
Living people
American women poets
People from Reistertown, Maryland
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners
21st-century American poets
Contestants on American game shows
American women academics
21st-century American women writers