Selected Media / Press
The Braille Encyclopedia—Reviews and Interviews
- 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”
Selected Presentations
- 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
