Kerry Cohen

Kerry Cohen (born September 15, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American author. She also writes as Kerry Cohen Hoffmann

Cohen grew up in suburban New Jersey.[1] She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon and an MA in counseling psychology from Pacific University. A counselor (LPC Intern) and writing instructor, she lives with her children and boyfriend in Portland, Oregon.[1][2] She is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, based on her own promiscuity during her teens. In 2006 she published Easy, a young adult novel.[3]

She teaches creative writing for Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City and the Red Earth low-residency MFA program.

Although much of Cohen's writing has focused on her self-described promiscuity and sex addition, a Jezebel article disputes her lifestyle choices are actually due to a sex addiction.[4]

Bibliography

  • The Truth of Memoir: How To Write About Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity (Writer's Digest Books, 2014)
  • Easy (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
    • 2006 ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults and 2006 Oregon Book Award finalist
  • Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Hyperion, 2008)
  • The Good Girl (Delacorte, 2008)
  • It's Not You, It's Me (Delacorte, 2009)
    • 2010 Oregon Book Award finalist
  • Seeing Ezra (Seal Press, 2011)
  • Dirty Little Secrets (Sourcebooks, 2011)
  • Spent (Seal Press, 2014)

References

  1. 1 2 "Kerry Cohen On Her Publishing And Her Promiscuous Past". The Huffington Post. 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  2. ↑ Cohen, Kerry (2008-06-19). "Confessions of a psychotherapist: 'Some girls turn to drugs or alcohol. I chose promiscuity'". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  3. ↑ "Author Details for Kerry Cohen". Random House. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  4. ↑ Moe. "Is "Sex Addict" Memoirist Kerry Cohen Even Actually A Slut?". Jezebel. Retrieved 2018-04-28.


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