Coleman  has appeared frequently on radio and television programs, and has lectured throughout North
America, as well as in London and at Loch Ness. Coleman's  former cryptozoology columns, since the
1970s, have been "On the Trail" in the London-based Fortean Times and "Mysterious World" in Fate
Magazine, as well as regular contributions to The Anomalist and Fortean Studies. His unique signature
column, "The Cryptozoo News," was published in Strange Magazine, Mysteries Magazine, and now
appears as Coleman's weblog at Cryptomundo.com.

Coleman has been both an on- and off-camera consultant to NBC-TV's
"Unsolved Mysteries," A & E's "Ancient Mysteries," History Channel's
"In Search of History," Discovery Channel's "In the Unknown,
" Discovery Science Channel's "Critical Eye," History Channel's "Deep
Sea Detectives," Animal Planet's "Animal X," Discovery Kids' "Mystery
Hunters," and Animal Planet's "Twisted Tales," Weird Channel's
"Weird Travels," and other reality-based programs such as "Current
Affair" and "Evening Magazine." In 2000, he served as the Senior
Series Consultant to the new "In Search Of..." program which was
broadcast on Sci-Fi Network. During 2002, he was featured in the Sony
Studios' documentary, Search for the Mothman, available on the
deluxe DVD of the movie The Mothman Prophecies. He served as the
Screen Gems' national and international publicity spokesperson for
that Richard Gere-Mark Pellington movie. He continues this work
through a study of the so-called "Mothman Death Curse."

Coleman has been investigating, in the field and in the library,
cryptozoological evidence and folklore since the Abominable
Snowmen (Yeti) caught his interest over 45 years ago, leading him to
research mysterious Black Panther sightings and reports of Napes
(North American Apes) in the American Midwest. He has traveled to
every state in the USA (except Alaska), throughout Canada, Mexico,
Scotland, and the Virgin Islands, interviewing witnesses of Hairy
Hominoids, Lake Monsters, Giant Snakes, Mystery Felids, Mothman,
Thunderbirds, and other cryptids.

His first cryptozoology article was published in 1969. He went on to write two books with Jerome Clark (The Unidentified [1975] and Creatures of the Outer Edge [1978], both published by Warner Books - republished in a new single edition in 2006 by Anomalist Books). In the 1980s, Coleman wrote Mysterious America (1983), Curious Encounters (1985), and Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (1989), all bestsellers for Faber and Faber. In 1999 Loren Coleman co-authored two books: one with Patrick Huyghe called The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (Avon/Harper Collins - republished in 2006 by Anomalist Books); the other with Jerome Clark called Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature (Simon and Schuster/Fireside). During 2002, Linden published the biography, Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology.

Coleman's extremely popular Mysterious America: The Revised Edition
(2001) and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (2002) are
published by Paraview Press. In 2003, Coleman continued his
fast-paced examination of cryptozoology with two books, BIGFOOT!
The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket - Simon and
Schuster) and The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and
Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (NY: Tarcher-Penguin). With the
publication of Mark A. Hall's book, Thunderbirds, Paraview Press began
a projected series of cryptozoology books under the umbrella "Loren
Coleman Presents...." In 2007, Simon and Schuster has his Mysterious
America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders,
Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures.

Joining the Weird Writers team during the 2000s, Coleman is a
contributor to Weird USA (2004), Weird Ohio (2005), and Weird
Virginia (2007), and is profiled in Weird New England (2005). Coleman
also is frequently asked to write book prefaces and forewords, and in
recent years has done so for books authored by Linda Godfrey, Janet
and Colin Bord, Benjamin Radford, Brad Steiger, Mark A. Hall, Tony
Healy, Paul Cropper, and others.

Loren Coleman has won awards for this documentary and literary work,
as well as being portrayed in comics. In 2004, he was honored with
being depicted as the comic book character "Coleman Wadsworth" who
chased an Abominable Snowman, and then raced through the pages of
Swamp Thing #7 and #8, in pursuit of the title character. 

Writer Allan Gross and artist Jerry Carr said they modeled their comic lead cryptozoologist "Tork Darwyn" in their 2005 Cryptozoo Crew graphic novel on Coleman. In 2006, Coleman appeared as himself (in trenchcoat and fedora) in artist Peter Loh's and writer Scott Marlowe's Crypto-Man comic series.

Loren Coleman's special appreciation of his fellow cryptozoologists and hominologists has made him the source of biographical insights, and his obituaries and living commentaries on the leaders of the field (as noted in Cryptozoology A to Z) have been published and broadcast widely. National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," for example, called on Coleman to speak in tribute of Dr. Grover Krantz who died on Valentine's Day, 2002. Coleman was the first person that reporter Bob Young spoke to about Ray Wallace's death, even before the Wallace family pulled off their now infamous "confession" stories about their father's Bigfoot hoaxes.

Loren Coleman is also an international consultant on the "copycat effect" (media behavior contagion in cluster suicides and school shootings) through his university research, books, and media consultations during the last three decades. Coleman first began working in the mental health field in 1967, and was later a senior researcher at the Muskie School of Public Policy from 1983 through 1996. Concurrently, Coleman was an adjunct associate/assistant professor at the University of Southern Maine, teaching a popular course on the social impact of documentary films year-round from 1990-2003, and producing eleven award-winning documentaries. He has worked with Hollywood talent, such as "L. A. Law" star Richard Dysart and Stephen King's Graveyard Shift's Minor Rootes. Additionally, Coleman has taught courses in seven other New England universities since 1980.

As an author, he wrote two books focussed on school shootings and suicide events: Suicide Clusters (Faber and Faber, 1987) and The Copycat Effect (Simon and Schuster, 2004). Suicide Clusters was a Psychotherapy and Social Science Book Club selection, and Coleman appeared on many programs, including "The Larry King Show" discussing it. His work on the suicides of baseball players, specifically Angels pitcher Donnie Moore, was covered in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and The Sporting News, plus on television programs such as ESPN's "SportsCenter" (in 1989) and "ESPN Classics" (in 2001). Regarding The Copycat Effect, he has appeared on Coast to Coast AM, National Public Radio, NBC-TV, CBC-TV, and other media forums discussing celebrity suicides, Heaven's Gate, Waco, the Hemingway Curse, Columbine, as well as Montreal's Dawson College and other 2006 school shootings in Vermont, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Coleman has privately trained and consulted across the USA and Canada to universities, public schools, law enforcement agencies, and mental health organizations on suicide clusters and school violence since the 1980s. As a consultant for the State of Maine, for example, he trained 11,000 professionals and paraprofessionals from 1997, until recently.

Coleman was educated in anthropology and zoology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and psychiatric social work at the Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston. He did post-masters work in anthropology at Brandeis University and studied sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Coleman taught at New England universities from 1980 to 2004, also having been a senior researcher at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Policy from 1983 to 1996, before retiring from teaching to write, lecture, and consult on his many interests.

Coleman has been an instructor, assistant/associate professor, research associate, and documentary filmmaker, in various academic university settings, since 1980. He gave one of the first credit courses in the USA on the subject of cryptozoology in 1990, and examined cryptozoology films in his popular documentary film class at the University of Southern Maine from 1989 through 2003.

Personally, Loren Coleman directs the International Cryptozoology Museum from his home in Maine, begins writing before the sun is up, blogs daily, and goes to as many baseball games and academic activities in which his sons are involved. Coleman has been the president of youth, high school, and college baseball booster organizations for most of his parental life; he is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.