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Elizabeth Cohen


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Fiction, Poetry, Memoir


Elizabeth Cohen is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where she serves as the fiction editor for the Saranac Review. Her memoir, The Family on Beartown Road (Random House, 2003), was a New York Times Notable Book, and her articles, stories, and poetry have appeared in SELF, MORE, Newsweek, People, New York Times Magazine, Salon, Tablet, and the Yale Review, among other publications.

She lives in Plattsburgh, New York, with her daughter, Ava and way, way too many cats.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 798 ratings · 164 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors
The House on Beartown Road:...
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The Hypothetical Girl: Stories
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Mother Love
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The Economist's Daughter
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“Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.”
― Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl: Stories
tags: autumn, fall, flirting, love, lust, seasons, spring
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“Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.”
― Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl: Stories
tags: disease, limerence, love, unrequited-love
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“I am blinded by the glare of all silver linings.”
― Elizabeth Cohen
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