Leah Hager Cohen is the author of four non-fiction books, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, including The Grief of Others and Heart, You Bully, You Punk.
She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University, writes the blog Love as a Found Object, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
Leah Hager Cohen is the author of four non-fiction books, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, including The Grief of Others and Heart, You Bully, You Punk.
She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University, writes the blog Love as a Found Object, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
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