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Sam Cohen

Biography

Sam Cohen

Sam Cohen was born and raised in suburban Detroit. Her fiction is published in Fence, Bomb, Diagram and Gulf Coast, among others. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a PhD fellow at the University of Southern California, Cohen lives in Los Angeles.

Sam Cohen

Books by Sam Cohen

by Sam Cohen - Fiction, Short Stories

In SARAHLAND, Sam Cohen explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure --- and a new set of problems --- by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses, Cohen explodes this search for self, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives.