Robert Cohen (born 1957) is an American novelist and short fiction writer.
His writing has been praised as "wild and ingenious" by The New York Times, "formidable" by The Atlantic Monthly, and "ruefully funny" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
His first novel, The Organ Builder, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as "an intimate, stunningly written portrait of a man and his reluctant confrontation with the past … all narrated in a voice that often approaches sheer poetry."
His third novel, Inspired Sleep, was called "a sparkling comic novel of postmodern pathologies…more than just a brilliant book – it's a transporting read" and "a great fat multiplex of a novel, beautifully written, funny, moving, sardonic and sad, it's a brilliantly executed indictment of our biomechanistic age, where there's a cure for every ache and, more importantly, an ache for every cure."
A collection of stories, The Varieties of Romantic Experience, was published in 2002; his most recent novel, Amateur Barbarians, in 2009.