Leah Hager Cohen

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Leah Hager Cohen

English Department

Visiting Professor and James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing

(M.S., Columbia University)

Fields: Creative Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction; Ethics of Storytelling

•	Email: lcohen@holycross.edu Office Phone: (508) 793-3437 Office: Fenwick 231 PO Box: 47A Office Hours:

Biography

Leah Hager Cohen attended Hampshire College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is the author of five works of nonfiction, including Train Go Sorry; Glass, Paper, Beans, and I Don't Know, and six novels, among them The Grief of Others, No Book but the World, and Strangers and Cousins. She has been an ASL interpreter, a stiltdancer and faculty mentor in Lesley University's MFA in Creative Writing. At 51С�Ƴ�, in addition to Creative Writing she has taught in CreateLab and Montserrat.