About Lisa Cohn

Award-winning writer and author Lisa Cohn writes about energy and environment, parenting and immigrants (for The Immigrant Story). Her work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Mothering, Yahoo! Parenting, Brain, Child: The Magazine For Thinking Mothers,  Horizon Air, Mother Earth News, Dogster and other publications.  As an energy writer, she’s a co-founder of Microgrid Knowledge, a news site that focuses on distributed energy resources. She recently contributed to a National Geographic discussion about the effects of fossil fuels.

Lisa and her brother, Patrick Cohn, are co-founders of The Ultimate Sports Parent, a program that aims to instill confidence in young athletes.

Read her clips about Energy and Environment. Read Lisa’s writing samples about Parenting and Sports Parenting. Here are her clips from The Immigrant Story  Listen to Lisa’s podcast, The Ultimate Sports Parent which was named Number 2 on Feedspot’s list of the top 25 best youth sports podcasts in 2022.

Lisa and her 14-year-old, Michael, are co-authors of the “Bash and Lucy” children’s book and audiobook series, which received two Mom’s Choice Silver awards. They were featured on the Today Show for Michael’s love of books and YouTube book reviews. They’ve also been featured on AM Northwest, Portland Today, and in Disney’s Babble and other media. Learn more at BashAndLucy.com. Lisa is also co-author of “The Step-Tween Survival Guide,”  which made VOYA’s Nonfiction Honor List and was a Foreward Book of the Year Finalist. She has also received awards from the Pacific Northwest Writers’ Assoc., Willamette Writers, Parenting Publications of America and other organizations.

Lisa earned a bachelor’s degree in literature from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University. She began her career as a reporter for a small daily newspaper. Email Lisa at LisaEllenCohn1@gmail.com.