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Kerry Cohen teaches online creative writing courses at the UCLA Extension Writers Program

 

"Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity" by Kerry Cohen

Writers' instructors:

Abercrombie, Barbara

Alexander, Ronald

Alumit, Noel

Amdahl, Gary

Amster, Betsy

Ankrum, Barbara

Arnold, Caroline

Auerbach, Kimberlee

Balis, Chrysanthy

Barlow, Michael

Baszile, Jennifer

Bauman, Beth Ann

Bauman, Bruce

Bauman, Natasha

Bechtold, Lisze

Belcher, Wendy

Benedek, Tom

Bernstein, Jon

Bingeman, Alison Lea

Blomquist , Tom

Bogen, Laurel Ann

Borofka, Deb Everson

Borofka, David

Boulware, Bill

Boyle, Bill

Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra

Brandeis, Gayle

Brandli, Jami

Bray, Sharon

Bryant, Robert

Buckley, Michael

Bull, Sheldon

Burmeister, Charles

Bursky, Rick

Burwick, Kimberly

Byrne, Erica

Cain, Shannon

Callan, Jamie Cat

Caram, Eve La Salle

Carmichael , Claire

Casey, Mary

Chambers, Julie

Chambers, David

Chehak, Susan Taylor

Chitlik, Paul

Cizmar, Paula

Cohen, Kerry

Comer, Brian

Comora, Madeleine

Connell, Maureen

Contreras, Ernie

Cooper, Stephen

Copeland , Martin

Corbett, David

Corman, Matthew

Crane, Megan

Cron, Lisa

Curnen, Tim

Cushman, Adam Scott

Davidson, Bryan

Davis, Deborah Dean

Debenham, Matt

DeFilippis, Nunzio

Dellamonica, Alyx

Dilts, Tyler

Doctor, Lisa Lieberman

Doller, Ben

Doolittle, John

Drake, Diane

Dunn, Samantha

Dunne, Peter

Edson, Eric

Eisner, Philip

Elliot , Greg

Escandon, Maria Amparo

Eversz, Robert

Farmer , Jerrilyn

Fioravanti, Valerie

Fisher, Antwone

Forster, Rebecca

Friedman, Amy

Gable, Mona

Gale, Kate

Gebauer , Phyllis

Gee, Alison Singh

Giglio, Keith

Giglio, Juliet Aires

Glass, Linzi

Glickman, Gary

Golant, Susan

gonzalez, liz

Gray, Beverly

Grazioso, Claudia

Greenberg , Steven

Grice, Gordon

Grundfest , Bill

Guerdat, Andrew

Gutman, Karin

Harrison, Wayne

Hasley , William

Hatem, Richard

Haynes, Betsy

Hewitt, Cindy

Hightower, Lynn

Hong, Anna Maria

Howard-Johnson, Carolyn

Iglesias, Karl

Inclan, Jessica Barksdale

Ipcizade, Catherine

Isaacs, David

Jacobs, Matthew

Jacobson, Tom

Jaffe , Daniel M.

James, Elizabeth

Janover, Michael

Jennewein, James

Johnson, Kristine

Johnson, Matt

Kann, Rachel

Kapner, Mitchell

Kellard, Phil

Kellogg, Carolyn

Kenney, Shawna

Khanna , Vandana

Kiesbye, Stefan

Kirschenbaum, Alan

Kobrin, Sandra

Kolpas, Norman

Kraft, Scott

Krizan, Kim

Kutner, Merrily

Lapides, Beth

Lauber , Lynn

Lazarus , Tom

Leavitt , Caroline

Leff, Howard

Lehr, Leslie

Leibner, Joshua

Lenney, Dinah

Lepucki , Edan

Levine, Paul

Levitin , Sonia

Levy, Simon

Lichtenstein, Barney Miles

Liu, Aimee

Livingston, Sonja

Lombardo, Billy

Lopez , Angel Dean

Lummis, Suzanne

MacBird, Bonnie

Mandelbaum, Paul

Mandell, Corey

Manning, Richard

Markel, Michelle

Marsa , Linda

Martell, Leon

Mathews , Lou

Mauldin, Bronwyn

Mazur, Stephen

McKewin, Vince

Medway, Lisa

Meeks , Christopher

Melrod, George

Mengert, Christina

Mernit, Billy

Miller, Greg

Milliken, Kate

Monroe, Robert

Morton, Philip

Mueller, Anton

Murdock, Maureen

Myers , Scott

Nash, Jennie

Nazemian, Abdi

Neri, Kris

Niad, Wendi

Norton, Lisa Dale

O' Neill, Alexis

Ollstein, Laurel

Ord, Chris

Osborne, Andrew

Palmer, Karen

Palmer , Linda

Palumbo, Dennis

Patterson, Victoria

Paul , Ann Whitford

Peeples, Quinton

Pierce, Marian

Plesko , Les

Polsky, David

Powell, J. Dakota

Prager, Judith

Prasad,

Raab, Diana

Rabkin, William

Ragana, Lollie

Raley, Ron

Rapp, Emily

Raymond, Linda

Reese, Rhett

Reid, Annie

Resnick , Rachel

Roberge , Rob

Rosen , Ken

Rosenberg, David

Rosenthal, Lisa

Rosenthal, Laurence

Rosin, Charles

Ruppenthal, Chris

Saber, Luciano

Saltzberg, Barney

Sandler, Ellen

Sands, Katharine

Santiago, Eduardo

Sarvas, Mark

Scharlach , Ed

Schimmel, John

Schraft, Micah

Schwartz, Leslie

Schwartz, Virginia Frances

Scott, Jessica

Sedaka, Marc

Selbo, Jule

Shahan, Sherry

Shapiro, Alan

Shapiro, Rochelle

Shaw, Deirdre

Shopsowitz, Karen

Silverman, David

Simon, Clea

Smith, Dominic

Sohmer, Steve

Specktor, Matthew

Specktor, Matthew

Spiller, Nancy

Staahl, Jim

Steen , Mark

Stenson , Jacqueline

Strom, Dao

Suppa , Ron

Tamasy, Paul

Taub, Bill

Teasley, Lisa

van der Linde, Laurel

Verducci, Patricia

Vigon, Barry

Villanueva, Marianne

Vining, Dan

Vitale, Tony

Wachtel, Brooks

Walsh, Laurence

Warfield, David W.

Wax, Roberta

Waxman, Stephanie

Wayland, April Halprin

Webb, Chris

Webb, Don

Weiser, Stanley

Weiss, Michael

Welch, Douglas

Welch, Rosanne

What, Leslie

Wilkerson, Ronald

Williams, Bett

Williams, Sheila J.

Wilson, Antoine

Wilson, Eric

Wilson, Ian Randall

Wilson, John Morgan

Wilson, Larry

Wisdom, Victoria

Witten, Matt

Woelfle, Gretchen

Wolfson , Steven

Wyatt , Charles

Xi, Xu

Yang, Lyndane

Yee, Lisa

Yoo, Paula

Youtt , Harry

Zackheim, Victoria

Zambrano, Jacqueline

Kerry Cohen

 

Instructor Biography:

MFA, author of the memoir Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Hyperion) and three young adult novels: Easy (Simon & Schuster), The Good Girl, and It’s Not You, It’s Me (both from Delacorte). Ms. Cohen’s fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Portland Monthly, the North American Review, Babble.com, and Brevity.com.

 

Instructor Statement:

Reduced down, writing is the process of taking the messy, often unpleasant aspects of our lives and crafting them into something meaningful - meaningful not just for ourselves, but for others. That process must invariably be one of discovery, where you don't know something, you don't understand, but you are propelled to find out. I want most for my students to determine what this question is in their work, and then explore the answers through the writing. I want them to feel encouraged, but I also want to push them into new territory, to look further, deeper than they have before - all while also teaching the nuts and bolts of the craft.