Jaed Muncharoen Coffin is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the English department and M.F.A. program at The University of New Hampshire.Coffin's first book, the memoir "A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants," was published in 2008. His second memoir, "Roughhouse Friday," was published in 2019.Coffin received his B.A. in Philosophy from Middlebury College and his M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Southern Maine.