Widely published, Helen Degen Cohen (Halina Degenfisz), is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, First Prize in Stand magazine's worldwide fiction competition for an excerpt from her autobiographical novel, The Edge of the Field, two Illinois Arts Council Awards, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, and an Indiana Writers Conference award in Poetry, among other honors, including fellowships to the four major art colonies in the United States.
She is a graduate of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and, after years travelling to schools throughout the state as part of the Artist in Education program, she has returned to teaching (at Roosevelt University) and to co-editing Rhino magazine. Helen originally co-founded the magazine as well as its adjunct, the Poetry Forum, a monthly drop-in workshop. She is currently swimming once again in the waters of Rilke's Duino Elegies.
Helen Degen Cohen
