Cat Cohen

Since moving from L.A. to the Southern California high desert, CAT COHEN has been an active Palm Springs Writers Guild member with eight non-fiction books on food, travel, and songwriting. To add to this body of work, he recently penned his first novel, The Longer Road Home, an inspiring story of Sam Freberg, an idealistic, troubled, bohemian gay Jewish musician who overcomes various addictions and HIV/AIDS, a gripping, inspiring read.

Cat is also an ASCAP songwriter with songs recorded by Cheryl Lynn, Freddie Hubbard, and Bo Diddley and in the feature films The Rat Pack (HBO) and Undercover Brother (Universal). A songwriting instructor for many years at UCLA Extension, Musician's Institute, and Cal Poly Pomona, he regularly speaks and critiques at songwriter organizations like Taxi, Songsalive!, and SongNet. In addition, he's written several musicals including the anti-drug The Not So Great Escape, commissioned by Opera Pacific and performed in schools throughout Southern California. His jazzy-bluesy New Orleans style CD Songs Of Survival and Sweet Surrender is available at CD Baby.

Currently, Cat performs as a pop music therapist in hospitals, senior homes, and recovery establishments bringing healing through American and international songs plus some of his own compositions.