March 5: Meryl Cohn and Nancy Barnes

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A recording of the reading is available here.


Meryl Cohn

Meryl Cohn is a two-time semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a recipient of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Grant, a Lark Play Development Center semifinalist, and recipient of the Eventide Arts Kaplan Playwriting Award. She is the author of Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Etiquette, published by Houghton Mifflin, and a long-running humorous advice column about love, sex, and relationships. She lives in Northampton with her partner, the writer MB Caschetta, and their poodle, Baby Cass. 

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Nancy Barnes

Nancy Barnes was a devoted New Yorker for many years, teaching cultural anthropology and education at The New School and working in the “small school” reform movement in public high schools. Now she is happily living in Northampton, writing personal essays and stories. Her work has been published in Hippocampus, Public Seminar, Pangyrus and other journals.

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