Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, Glimmertrain, The Iowa Review, Memorious and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, The Cartographer's Vacation, received the Owl Creek Poetry Prize; other honors include a PEN Discovery Award and Glimmertrain's Short Fiction Award. She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes about marine research at MIT. "...an ideal and recommended introduction for those new to her poetic style, and a welcome update for those previously familiar with her work..."--Midwest Book Review. "For a poet with Cohen's gift, it must require immense control to stop once she starts. When Cohen turns to a topic like 'Current Events,' she swerves away from the expected meditation on today's headlines and begins to catalog a simpler kind of current event instead."-Rain Taxi Review Summer 2010