About
婕 Jie V Cohen is a mixed, intersex writer and author of the chapbook VENUS LIMBS (‘25, Thirty West) whose work has been recognized in or is forthcoming in the The Offing, Ex-Puritan, The Minnesota Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Strange Horizons, Singapore Unbound, POETS.org, and others. Their poem THE FUTURE received a Best of the Net award in 2023. They were the winner of the 2024 Singapore Unbound Poetry Contest. They are currently an international ELA educator in Central Asia. They are a poetry reader for Electric Literature and CNF reader for ANMLY.
Select Publications
Books
Fellowships/Prizes/Etc
The Offing - Gaia and the 21st Century Malfunction, Gaia [uncomfortably] (forthcoming)
Radon Journal - Gaia Sings the Body Electric
SUSPECT: 10th Singapore Poetry Contest Winner - fairy-cherry
Ex-Puritan - Dorian Does Dock-Road
Minnesota Review - MonsterInterSex (Agdistis III)
Hayden’s Ferry Review - Agdistis II
Best of The Net 2023 - THE FUTURE
Strange Horizons - Venus Collection
Sycamore Review - SALOME
Nat-Brut - 2 Poems
Singapore Unbound - The Hawker Centres of Atlantis
Thirty West - VENUS LIMBS (forthcoming)
Singapore Unbound: SUSPECT 10th Singapore Poetry Contest Winner, selected by Jeddie Sophronius
Joseph McGrath Bottkol Fellowship for Creative Writing, 2023
Naomi Kitay Fellowship for Creative Prose Writing, 2023
Best of the Net Poetry Winner, 2023, selected by Jane Wong
Kenyon Review Winter Writing Workshop, Poetry, 2022
Millicent Allen Prize for Lyric Poetry, 2022
Naomi Kitay Fellowship for Creative Prose Writing, 2022
Critical Language Scholarship for Mandarin Chinese study, 2022
Anne Singer ‘69 Award for Poetry, 2022
Gertrude Claytor Award for Best Poem, Academy of American Poets, 2022
Frances Perkins Scholarship, Mount Holyoke College, 2020-2023
Phi Theta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, 2019-2023