Nan Cohen

Nan Cohen (born 1968) is an American poet, who is poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.

Life
Cohen was born in Chicago, and raised in Reisterstown, Maryland. She 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.

Recognitions
Her awards and honors include a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. She also has received a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in poetry at Stanford University.