Samia Cohen (she or they) is a writer, public scholar, and creative practitioner with an interest in environmental storytelling, urban environmental history, and transgender studies. She is at work on a book manuscript, titled Watershed Metropolis: the Providence River and its lifeworlds, that explores her natal city’s hydrological legacy and the life that free-flowing water has supported across time. She also writes in an auto-theoretical vein on trans embodiment in relation to changing landscapes. Samia completed her PhD in American Studies at Brown University in 2024.