Born and raised in Palisades, NY, Mea Cohen is a writer now based in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Her work has appeared in Ladygunn, West Trade Review, Harpur Palate, OKAY Donkey, Big Whoopie Deal, Barely South Review, and more. In 2024, she was nominated for best micro-fiction. She earned her MFA in creative writing and literature from Stony Brook University, where she was a Contributing Editor for The Southampton Review. After seven years of work in the publishing industry, for companies such as David Black Literary Agency, Trident Media Group, and Audible, she is now a Partnerships Manager at Sirius XM and the Founder and Editor in Chief for The Palisades Review.
Mea’s first book, Girl, In Fragments: a Memoir, is currently out on query.