Naomi Cohn

Naomi Cohn is the author of The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight (Rose Metal Press), which examines vision loss and relearning to read and write as an adult. Her past includes a childhood among Chicago academics; involvement in a guerrilla feminist art collective; and work as an encyclopedia copy editor, community organizer, fundraising consultant, and therapist. Red Dragonfly Press published her poetry chapbook, Between Nectar & Eternity. Her work’s also appeared in: Baltimore Review, LitHub, Hippocampus, Ninth Letter, Terrain, and Poetry, among other places. Cohn has also appeared on NPR and been honored by a Best of the Net Finalist and two Pushcart nominations. Raised in Chicago, she now lives on unceded Dakota territory in Saint Paul, Minnesota.