Leah Hager Cohen has written four works of nonfiction, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, most recently The Grief of Others, longlisted for the Orange Prize, a New York Times Notable Book, and a best book of the year in the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail.

In fall 2013, Riverhead will publish I Don't Know, an exploration of why we struggle to admit ignorance and of what happens when we do. In early 2014, it will publish Cohen's fifth novel, No Book but the World.

The Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, Cohen is also on the faculty of Lesley University's MFA in Creative Writing.