Booth was born on March 21 in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx.

Booth graduated from college in 1996 with a BA and MA in Psychology and worked as a social worker in New York City Emergency Children’s Service. In 2005, she attended The New School for General Studies in New York, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. Also in 2005, Booth completed her first novel, Tyrell. Her inspiration to write this book came from her experiences working with the troubled teenagers in New York.

Booth is a full-time writer and part-time college professor at a Bronx Community College, teaching English. She also volunteers for the NAACP ACT-SO program, where she mentors teenage writers. She lives in Basel, Switzerland as a writer-in-residence at Laurenz Haus.

Books

• Tyrell - A novel about street life as seen through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old, homeless, African-American boy growing up in the Bronx.
• Kendra

part 2 of Tyrell called Bronxwood(A book in the Tyrell series)(2011)A novel by coe booth

Short stories

• Contributed a short story in the anthology This is Push: New Voices from The Edge