Session:
Creative Writing
Rachel Cohen is the author of Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels (FSG, 2020); Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade (Yale University Press, 2013); and A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of Writers and Artists (Random House, 2004), winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Her essays on artists and writers—their friendships, fallings out, and the work they make—have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Art in America, Apollo Magazine, McSweeney’s and Best American Essays. Cohen received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is Professor of Practice in the Arts in Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.