Catharina Coenen

Catharina Coenen is a first-generation German immigrant to the northwestern "chimney" of Pennsylvania, where she teaches biology at Allegheny College. Her creative nonfiction has recently appeared in The American Scholar, The Southampton Review Online, The Christian Science Monitor, Appalachian Heritage, and elsewhere.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2021*

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