Nan Cohen, the longtime poetry program director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, is the author of two books of poems, Rope Bridge (2005) and Unfinished City (2017). The recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, she lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at Viewpoint School and the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.