Biography
Gabriel Cohen's debut novel Red Hook (2001) was nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel, and he is also the author of the novels The Graving Dock (2007), Neptune Avenue (2009), The Ninth Step (2010), and Boombox (2007). His nonfiction book Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path Through Divorce was published in 2008. He has written for such publications as the New York Times, Poets & Writers, Gourmet.com, Lion's Roar, the New York Post magazine, and Time Out New York, and is included in the anthology Best Buddhist Writing 2009. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with C.C.E. (tenure) in the Writing Department at Pratt Institute; has taught writing at NYU, the Center for Fiction, and Long Island University; and worked as a staff writer for the New Haven Advocate newspaper. He founded and coordinated the Sundays at Sunny's reading series, has taught at the Omega Institute and the Kripalu Center, and was a guest lecturer aboard the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner. He was profiled in the New York Times for publishing three different kinds of books with three different houses in one year. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.