{"id":3405,"date":"2024-09-17T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3405"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:03:35","slug":"andrea-cohen","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/profile\/andrea-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"leftCol\">\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Andrea Cohen is the author of nine poetry collections, including<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Sugar\u00a0<\/i>(Four Way Books, 2026),<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>The Sorrow Apartments\u00a0<\/i>(Four Way, 2024),\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i><em>Everything<\/em>\u00a0(Four Way Books, 2021)\u00a0<em>Nightshade<\/em>\u00a0(Four Way, 2019),\u00a0<em>Unfathoming<\/em>\u00a0(Four Way, 2017),\u00a0<em>Furs Not Mine<\/em>\u00a0(Four Way, 2015),\u00a0<em>Kentucky Derby<\/em>\u00a0(Salmon Poetry, 2011),\u00a0<em>Long Division<\/em>\u00a0(Salmon Poetry, 2009), and\u00a0<em>The Cartographer\u2019s Vacation<\/em>\u00a0(Owl Creek Press, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>Cohen\u2019s poems have appeared in\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Threepenny Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The New York Review of Books, The New Republic<\/em>,\u00a0and elsewhere. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship,\u00a0<em>Glimmer Train<\/em>\u2018s Short Fiction Award, and several fellowships at MacDowell.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen grew up in Atlanta and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She has taught at Emerson College, UMASS-Boston, and Merrimack College, where she was the founding director of the Writer\u2019s House. Since 2002, she has been the director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3405\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}