in an essay pertaining to Roe V. Wade, she wrote that three of her five pregnancies were unplanned and that she had undergone two abortions. In 2019, her New York Times Modern Love essay, "When Cupid is a Prying Journalist," was adapted into Episode 2 of Amazon's Modern Love series, with Catherine Keener playing Copaken. She also collaborated with Tommy Siegel of Jukebox the Ghost. She is represented by literary agent Lisa Leshne. Personal life She lived in Paris and Moscow before moving to New York City in 1992. She became engaged to and married Paul Kogan in 1993. They have three children: son Jacob (born 1995); daughter Sasha (born 1997); and son Leo (born 2006). In 2018, she and Kogan divorced; as she wrote in The Atlantic, they did so without legal assistance, at a cost of $626.50. Copaken wrote about being assaulted in her early twenties. She wrote that she endured a number of random assaults and muggings, "[S]ome were quite scary". In March 2018 in The Atlantic, she wrote about The New York Observer editor Ken Kurson sexually harassing her. Copaken has also recounted that she was date raped on the night before her graduation. The next day she reported the incident to the university's health service, but was advised not to report her rape to police by her psychologist as the lengthy legal process might have affected her plans after graduation. She wrote in The Atlantic, 30 years after the incident, that she had recently written to her assailant and that the assailant had called and apologized to her. Works Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War (2001) – memoir Between Here and April (2008) – novel Hell Is Other Parents: And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion (2009) – essay The Red Book (2012) – novel The ABCs of Adulthood: An Alphabet of Life Lessons (2016) – nonfiction, illustrations by Copaken and Randy Polumbo The ABCs of Parenthood: An Alphabet of Parenting Advice (2017) – nonfiction, illustration by Copaken and Polumbo Ladyparts (2021) – memoir References External links 1966 births Living people American photojournalists 21st-century American memoirists 21st-century American novelists Harvard University alumni American women photographers War photographers Jewish women writers American women memoirists American women essayists American women novelists 21st-century American women writers People from Adelphi, Maryland People from Potomac, Maryland 21st-century American essayists Women photojournalists