About Megan Cohen
Megan Cohen (she/her) is an adventurous writer celebrated for “searing smarts… and a seemingly bottomless capacity for feeling” (San Francisco Chronicle.)
In her 20-year career of professionally rearranging the alphabet, Megan’s work has been witnessed live by theater and opera audiences across three continents (Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in DC, Cutting Ball Theater and Berkeley Rep in California, Southbank Centre in London, AADA in NYC, Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, etc) and enjoyed onscreen by millions of players in the popular Westbound and Fashion Designer video game franchises. She recently worked as a script doctor for an animated pilot in development by former Pixar employees and has evaluated screenplays as a judge in the BlueCat and NYC Midnight screenwriting contests. Her prose and poetry have been published in outlets including McSweeney’s and Andrei Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Letters and Life. Her lyrics for Woman Walking (set to music by composer Nell Shaw Cohen) appeared on soprano Laura Strickling’s 40@40: Volume 1, nominated for the 2023 GRAMMY™ award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
Megan is also million-pageview blogger under a top-secret pseudonym and she juggles a series of semi-secret pen names in multiple fiction genres. If you hang out with her, she won’t answer to any of her pen names but she will answer to her deeply unoriginal nickname. Her nickname is: Meg. When she’s not writing her own work, she loves supporting new voices as a sliding scale writing coach for authors who range from houseless youth to C-Suite executives.
She’s a pretty good dancer and a dedicated hot sauce enthusiast. Her hobbies are running, laughing at memes, and trying to understand quantum physics. She constantly changes her hair (all pics here are since 2021) and is always open to changing her mind.
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Want to know even more about Megan’s writing life, artistic background, and/or origin story? There’s a whole website for that. Try megancohen.com
