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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Berkeley, CA

California US

Email:

cohenyoungs@sbcglobal.net

Bio:

I've been a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, columnist,and book reviewer. I've been a contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine, a faculty member of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,and winner of the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award. In 2009, I co-authored "Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height" (Tarcher/Penguin) with a book award from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. But since I returned to my first love, poetry, while on a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, poems are what I've most enjoyed reading and writing. Soon, I hope poetry is all the news I need.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

Yiddish

Website:

https://www.susancohen-writer.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

Anderbo Poetry Prize; Atlanta Review International Publication Prize 2011,2012,2013,2014;Harpur Palate Milton Kessler Memorial Prize in Poetry; Literal Latte Poetry Prize; Rita Dove Poetry Award: Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Award; New Millennium Writings Best Poem Award; David-Martinson Meadowhawk Prize, Red Dragonfly Press 2015; Joy Harjo Prize (Second Place); Terrain.org 11th Annual Poetry Prize, Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2021. Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLIII.