Andrea Cohen is the author of the poetry collections Long Division and The Cartographer's Vacation. Her  poems and stories have appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review,  Glimmertrain, The Iowa Review, andSalmagundi. She is the recipient of the Owl Creek Poetry Prize, PEN Discovery Award, and Glimmertrain’s Short Fiction Award. She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes about marine research at MIT, where she also edits the online literary journal Sea Change.

About PEN New England

PEN New England is an organization of writers and all those who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year. The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit the PEN New England website.