Susan Cohen

Susan Cohen is a poet and former journalist based in Berkeley, California, who transitioned from a career as a reporter, science writer, journalism professor at UC Berkeley, and contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine to earning an MFA in poetry in 2013. She has authored three full-length poetry collections—Throat Singing (2012), A Different Wakeful Animal (2016), and Democracy of Fire (2022)—along with chapbooks and a co-authored nonfiction book, Normal at Any Cost (2009). Her work has earned awards including the Rita Dove Poetry Prize and David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize, with poems published in outlets like Prairie Schooner and Southern Review.