TW’s Neva Talladen talks to writer Naomi Cohn about her book <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/20181/9781941628331">The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight</a> and the reclamation of self it explores for her as a legally blind person. A 2023 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mcknight.org/programs/arts-culture/mcknight-artist-culture-bearer-fellowships/">McKnight Artist Fellow</a> in Writing, her previous publications include a chapbook,<a target="_blank" href="https://reddragonflypressblog.org/2014/01/"> Between Nectar &amp; Eternity (Red Dragon-fly Press, 2013)</a>, and pieces in <a target="_blank" href="https://baltimorereview.org/spring_2020/contributor/naomi-cohn">Baltimore Review</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thefourthriver.com/issue-5-print?rq=naomi%20cohn">Fourth River,</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/11/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-black-bird-by-naomi-cohn/">Hippocampus</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.terrain.org/2021/poetry/letter-to-america-cohn/">Terrain</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/people/naomi-cohn">Poetry</a>, among others. Naomi has also appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/">NPR</a> and been honored by a <a target="_blank" href="https://bestofthenetanthology.com/?s=naomi+cohn">Best of the Net </a>Finalist and two <a target="_blank" href="http://pushcartprize.com/">Pushcart</a> nominations.

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