Laureate Writers Series: Book Launch of Naomi Cohn’s Memoir

Laureate Writers Series will feature a book launch for poet, memoirist, and teacher Naomi Cohn’s new memoir, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight. If you are visually impaired you will find her work particularly compelling and unlike any other you will encounter.

The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight examines vision loss and relearning to read and write as an adult. Cohn is a writer and teaching artist. Her past includes a childhood among Chicago academics; involvement in a guerrilla feminist art collective; and work as an encyclopedia copy editor, community organizer, grant writer, fundraising consultant, and therapist.