Press

Selected Media / Press

CRAFT, Interview, Jacqueline Doyle, March 7, 2024, “Interview: Naomi Cohn””
Third Coast, Review, Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch, March 2, 2025, “Learning to Love the Feel of Words in The Braille Encyclopedia”
Talking Writing, Podcast, Neva Kares Talladen, January 15, 2025, “Naomi Cohn On Reimagined Lexicons and Writing Forward”
Hippocampus Magazine, Review, Sara Pisak, January 12, 2025, “The Braille Encyclopedia”
The Boston Globe, Review, December 7, 2024, “Celebrating ‘Free to Be’…and a Blindness Memoir”
Rain Taxi, Review, Meryl Natchez, Winter 2024, print edition
Winona Post, November 27, 2024, Gabriel Hathaway, “‘Braille Encyclopedia’ Author Reimagines Memoir Format”

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, panelist , Los Angeles, CA. “Creative Confinement: Using Constraints to Amplify Your Work”, March 27, 2025
Cornell University, Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program, Ithaca, NY. Lynne S. Abel ‘62 annual lecture, guest lecturer, “Creative Process,” March 12, 2025
Loft Literary Center, presentation/Q & A to Creative Nonfiction cohort, online, March 3, 2025
Fireside Reading Series, , Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, Rondo Library, Saint Paul, MN. January 22, 2025
Loft Literary Center, Reading with fellow McKnight fellowship recipients, Gen Del Raye , Hilal Isler and Kao Kalia Yang, Minneapolis, MN. November 21, 2024
Twin Cities Book Festival, Falcon Heights, MN. The Braille Encyclopedia Book Launch event, Talks Stage, October 19, 2024
COMPAS—Community Programs in the Arts, Access Coach/Mentor, individual sessions, (virtual) June 2020
COMPAS—Community Programs in the Arts, Accessibility Training, presenter/trainer, Saint Paul, MN. November 13, 2019
Springboard for the Arts, Work of Art Funding Panel (Virtual), March 9, 2024
Known by Heart / Friends of the St. Paul Public Library Poetry Performances, Curator and Performer, St. Paul Public Library locations, MN. 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018. Featured poet-performers: Zoë Bird, Sharon Chmielarz, Donte Collins, Heid E. Erdrich, Margaret Hasse, Andrea Jenkins, Patricia Kirkpatrick, Ed Bok Lee, John Minczeski, David Mura