Nan Cohen
Encyclopedia
Nan Cohen is an American poet
and poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.
, and graduated from Yale University
and the University of California, Los Angeles
.
Her first book of poems, Rope Bridge, was published by Cherry Grove in 2005.
Cohen's poems have appeared in Tikkun
, Poetry International
, Prairie Schooner, The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women's Literature, Ploughshares
Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Nimrod, The San Francisco Review, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other magazines and anthologies.
Cohen has taught literature and creative writing at Viewpoint High School, community college, and university levels, and at the Stanford Medical School. 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
.
and Jones Lectureship
in poetry at Stanford University
.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.
Life
She was raised in Reisterstown, MarylandReisterstown, Maryland
Reisterstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland. Founded by German immigrant John Reister in 1758, it is located to the northwest of Baltimore. Though it is older than the areas surrounding it, it now serves primarily as a residential suburb of...
, and graduated from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
and the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
.
Her first book of poems, Rope Bridge, was published by Cherry Grove in 2005.
Cohen's poems have appeared in Tikkun
Tikkun
Tikkun/Tikun is a Hebrew word meaning "Fixing/Rectification". It has several connotations in Judaism:Traditional:*Tikkun , a book of Torah scroll text, used when learning to chant Torah portions or for correct-fixed scribal calligraphy...
, Poetry International
Poetry International
Poetry International is a literary journal published annually by San Diego State University Press that was established in 1997. The journal has since its 4th issue included a section focusing on poetry in translation from one nation. Poetry International is supported by a grant from the Edwin...
, Prairie Schooner, The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women's Literature, Ploughshares
Ploughshares
Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...
Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Nimrod, The San Francisco Review, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other magazines and anthologies.
Cohen has taught literature and creative writing at Viewpoint High School, community college, and university levels, and at the Stanford Medical School. She currently teaches poetry in the Master of Professional Writing Program
Master of Professional Writing Program
The Master of Professional Writing Program is a graduate creative writing program which offers a variety of courses at the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts & Sciences....
at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. She lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
Awards
Her awards and honors include a 2003 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. She also has received a Stegner FellowshipStegner Fellowship
The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner , an historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program. Ten...
and Jones Lectureship
Jones Lectureship
The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University is a two-year teaching fellowship available to previous Stegner Fellows. The Lectureship is available in fiction and poetry and is intended to provide writers with the time and support needed to complete book-length literary projects. Jones Lecturers...
in poetry at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
.
Works
- "A Newborn Girl at Passover", poemhunter
- "A Northern Winter", "Rope Bridge", "Distinguished Poet of a Small Country", "Horatio", Cherry Grove
- "Girder", Verse Daily
External links
Ploughshares
- http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8184 "Abraham and Isaac I"
- http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8235 "Abraham and Isaac: II"