Leah Cohen
Visiting Professor-The James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professorship in Creative Writing
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 Holy Cross, in addition to Creative Writing she has taught in CreateLab and Montserrat.