Hannah Cohen (Bad Anatomy and Year of the Scapegoat) resides in Virginia with her two cats. She's a graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Bad Anatomy (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). Hannah co-edits the online literary journal Cotton Xenomorph. Publications include Pigeonholes, Qu Lit Mag, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cherry Tree, Entropy, Glass: A Journal of Poetry and has spoken on several literary panels and roundtables. She was a Best of the Net 2018 finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee.


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Hannah Cohen is a poet who isn't afraid. Cohen's chapbook starts off with an inverse aubade, the last line digging a knife into my heart, "I leave/nothing." The rest of the chapbook follows suit, except Cohen leaves a lot. Cohen leaves my heart, my lungs, my brain, my kidneys, my mouth full with everything I can muster to feel. Cohen wonderfully brings us into the grotesqueness of the modern world and the internet with its fast-paced ability to give us information and experiences ("Today I learned there are babies/born with their intestines/outside their little baby bellies./I don't know how I spent/three hours on Google"). She does this in a way that feels real and original, lending her voice out into the world.

— Joanna C. Valente, author of Marys of the Sea & editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault