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

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, and graduated from

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and the

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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'', ''

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'', ''The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women's Literature'', ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established 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 Bos ...

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Web site for ''Ploughshares'', Web page titled "Authors and articles ... Nan Cohen", Web page last updated "09/08/06", accessed November 19, 2006 ''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 School, community college, and university levels, at the Stanford Medical School, and in the

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at the

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. 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

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Awards

Her awards and honors include a 2003 NEA (

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) Fellowship and a 2005

Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award wa ...

. She also has received a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in poetry at Stanford University.
National Endowment of the Arts Web site, Web page titled "Writer's Corner", accessed November 19, 2006

Works

"A Newborn Girl at Passover", ''poemhunter''
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Notes

External links

"Author's blog"
"Rope Bridge"
Napa Writer's Conference

''Ploughshares''

"Abraham and Isaac I"

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