Garnett Kilberg Cohen

GARNETT KILBERG COHEN has published three collections of short stories, Lost Women, Banished Souls (U of Missouri Press) and How We Move the Air (Mayapple Press), and most recently, Swarm to Glory (Wiseblood Books). Some of her awards include a Notable Essay citation from Best American Essays 2011; the Lawrence Foundation Prize; the Crazyhorse National Fiction Prize (2004); and four awards from the Illinois Council of the Arts, including an Individual Artist’s Fellowship for prose. Her essays and short stories have appeared in many publications, including American Fiction, Ontario Review, TriQuarterly, The Antioch review, Brevity, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, and writes regularly for The Prague Revue. A former fiction editor of The Pennsylvania Review and Hotel Amerkia, Garnett has also served as the review editor at Another Chicago Magazine, the former editor-in-chief of The South Loop Review, and the Guest Nonfiction Editor at Fifth Wednesday for its Fall & Spring 2014-15 issues. Garnett is a professor in the Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Her website is garnettcohen.com.