Joan Cohen grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and received her BA from Cornell University and her MBA from New York University. Over the course of her career working at technology companies, she held positions in sales, marketing and executive management, eventually returning to school to earn an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Since 1980, she’s been a Massachusetts resident, raising her family in Newton and later moving to Wayland and Stockbridge, where she now lives with her husband and Golden Retriever. She is a board member of the Stockbridge Bowl Association and editor of its annual newsletter.
