Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen’s writing draws on biography, art history, literary criticism, and the lyric essay.  Her essays on artists and writers—their friendships, fallings out, and the work they make—have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Art in America, Apollo Magazine, and Best American Essays. Her third book, Austen Years, a work of literary criticism and memoir, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2020. Cohen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is Professor of Practice in the Arts in Creative Writing in the Department of English Language and Literature and a co-founder of the Migration Stories Project at the University of Chicago.