Jamie Beth Cohen is the author of The Alice Burton Novels (WASTED PRETTY and LIMINAL SUMMER), and her words have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost Personal, Salon, and many other outlets including Hippocampus Magazine. She was named Best Storyteller in Lancaster (PA) in 2021, and her poem “that one thing” was nominated for The Best of the Net (2024) by JMWW Journal. Her work has been supported by Shannaghe and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. She is currently working on a memoir about her complicated father, their layered relationship, and his unexplained death, which was shortlisted for the Memoir Magazine prize. When she’s not writing, reading, working, or spending time with her family, she can be found mentoring incarcerated writers and novice storytellers.