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Felice Cohen            

Award-Winning Author, Professional Organizer, Holocaust Education Advocate

Felice Cohen is known nationally and internationally as the woman who lived in one of the world’s smallest apartments. Her book, "90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 Square Feet (...or more)," is the inspirational story on how living in a tiny New York City studio for five years expanded her life. The book garnered global media attention; Cohen has been featured on "Good Morning America," "TODAY," CBS, Fox5, Sirius, NPR, Time, Forbes, Globe & Mail, New York Daily News, and the Daily Mail, among others. She also appears in a documentary on tiny living, writes the blog "Living Large in Any Space," and has spoken at dozens of Tiny House Festivals and conferences around the U.S. and Canada.

Cohen is an award-winning author of several books, including "Half In: A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Forbidden Love", the Amazon bestseller of her 30-year secret about an age-gap affair with her boss. Additionally, "What Papa Told Me", a memoir about her grandfather's experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust, has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide, been translated into Polish, and is used in Holocaust museums and educational curriculums. The book was endorsed by Elie Wiesel and Yad Vashem, and Cohen has been featured in two documentaries focusing on grandchildren of survivors.

Cohen has been a professional organizer for over 30 years and speaks around the country about living tiny, organizing, and decluttering. She shares her family's Holocaust survival story and conducts the writing workshop “From Pain to Published: Turning Heartache into Memoir.” Cohen has a history as a weekly opinion columnist for the New York City newspaper amNewYork and has contributed to the New York Daily News and the Cape Cod Times.

She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was the first Jewish Affairs Editor for The Daily Collegian.

Speech Topics


How Living Tiny Made My Life Easier

Drawing from her nearly three decades as a professional organizer, Felice Cohen shares valuable tips on organizing and decluttering your belongings and shows how living with less can give you so much more.

Experiences of Writing a Book With My Grandfather

Unveiling the gripping narrative of uncovering my grandfather's first-hand experiences during the Holocaust and the journey that led to crafting his award-winning story in the book “What Papa Told Me.”

How Keeping a 30-Year Secret Changed My Life

The process of crafting the award-winning memoir, "Half In: A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Forbidden Love," felt therapeutic, aiding me in overcoming the shame associated with being part of a three-decade, secret, age-gap, same-sex, love affair.

Memoir Workshop - From Pain to Published: Turning Heartache into Memoir

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