Rhea Kohan (née Arnold) was an American writer, author of the novels Save Me a Seat (1979) and Hand-Me-Downs (1980).
Born Rhea Arnold, Kohan grew up in a traditional Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was a homemaker and her father was a school principal who moonlighted as head of the local yeshiva. She studied chemistry in college.
She is married to Emmy award-winning writer, producer, and composer, Buz Kohan, and mother of twins Jono and David, and Jenji Kohan.