samia w cohen

Samia Cohen is a writer, teacher, public scholar, and creative practitioner. Much of her work centers para-industrial sites along urban water bodies and coastal edges. Combining history and sensory immersion, she considers the ways such places embed toxic legacies while continuing to support vibrant lifeways. She also writes in the first person on transgender experience and trans embodiment.

Samia is currently involved in a community-driven project along Newtown Creek (Brooklyn and Queens, NY) titled Soil: Field of Awareness. She is also working on a manuscript about the waterways of Providence, Rhode Island, where Samia was born, and the life that free-flowing water has supported in the city across time.

_{feature image description: a field of red clover in the foreground. an elevated highway on the near horizon. photo by S. Cohen.}