Kerry Cohen is the author of four memoirs, including the bestselling and much beloved Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, as well as five other books of creative nonfiction and three young adult novels. She has been featured twice on Dr. Phil, and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, BBC Saturday Live, and numerous other national and local television talk shows, podcasts, and radio shows. Her bylines have been seen in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon.com, The Rumpus, and Psychology Today, among others. Kerry has long taught memoir at the university level, including at the University of Oklahoma City, where she is the Director of the Red Earth MFA program. A PsyD with many years of private practice, she is also a staff counselor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.