Susan Cohen

Susan Cohen is a poet,journalist, and beginning birdwatcher in Berkeley, California. She has been a newspaper reporter, a contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine, and a faculty member of the University of California Graduate School of Journalism. "Normal at Any Cost" won the 2010 Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks:,"Backstroking" and "Finding the Sweet Spot", and three full-length collections: "Throat Singing" (Cherry Grove Collections; 2012); "A Different Wakeful Animal" (David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize, Red Dragonfly Press; 2016), and "Democracy of Fire" (Broadstone Books; 2022).