Gabriel Cohen’s debut novel Red Hook was nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel, and he is also the author of the novels The Graving Dock and Boombox. His nonfiction book Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path Through Divorce will be published in March. He has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York, and taught writing at New York University. He has worked as an inner-city schoolteacher, a rock’n’roll musician, a waiter, a researcher, a script reader, and a composer for film soundtracks, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.