Sam Cohen was born and raised in sub­ur­ban Detroit. Her fic­tion is pub­lished in Fence, Bomb, Dia­gram, and Gulf Coast, among oth­ers. The recip­i­ent of a Mac­Dow­ell fel­low­ship and a PhD fel­low at the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, Cohen lives in Los Angeles.