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Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney's and other publications, and her essays have been anthologized in the Pushcart Anthology and in Best American Essays. Her book, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists was published in 2004 by Random House in the US and the UK, and Adelphi in Italy, won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand First Nonfiction Award. Cohen has been a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Breadloaf, and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. She teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.