susan cohen

Susan Cohen is a journalist and poet who lives in Berkeley, California. She's a former contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine, and has also been a professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California.

"Normal at Any Cost; Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height" by Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove was published by Tarcher/​Penguin in March, 2009.

"Normal at Any Cost" won a book award from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

It was an Editor's Pick in November, 2009, in Choice Reviews and a Women's Bioethics Bookclub selection. It is a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009, and was among Library Journal's Best Picks of 2009 in consumer health books. The New York Times called it "irresistible."

"Finding the Sweet Spot,poems by Susan Cohen" was published by Finishing Line Press in March, 2009.

Susan received a Pushcart Prize Nomination from poet Kim Addonizio for some of the work included in "Finding the Sweet Spot."

She also has poems in recent issues of the Connecticut Review and Atlanta Review, and the Marin Poetry Center 2009 Anthology. Her poems are forthcoming in the Southern Poetry Review, Pearl, Poetry East, CALYX Journal, and three anthologies: Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry), Mamas and Papas (City Works Press), and Marin Poetry Center 2010.

Other publications where poems have appeared include: Alehouse, Comstock Review, Ekphrasis, New Millennium Writings,Poet Lore, Poetry International, Puerto del Sol, Seattle Review, Sow's Ear Review, Spillway, Tar River Poetry, and Verse Daily.

Her profile of Dr. Abraham Verghese appeared in the January/​February 2009 Stanford Magazine, and can be read online.

"Survival," which appears in "Finding the Sweet Spot," won a New Millennium Writings Award for Best Poem in 2006.

"Two Ways," a poem from "Backstroking," was featured on Verse Daily in December, 2005.