Corinne Demas is the author of three novels, two collections of short stories, a collection of poetry, a memoir, a play, and numerous books for children. She's published more than forty short stories, in a variety of magazines and literary journals. Her publications before 2000 are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss.

Personal

Corinne Demas grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town

Stuyvesant Town

Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village is a large private residential development on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, and one of the most iconic and successful post-World War II private housing communities...

, the subject of her memoir, Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968. She attended Hunter College High School, graduated from Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

, and completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

.

She lived in Pittsburgh for a decade, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

 and at Chatham College

Chatham College

Chatham University is an American university with a women's undergraduate college and coeducational graduate programs through the doctoral level, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Shadyside neighborhood. The campus population of approximately 2,300 includes undergraduate women and graduate...

. In 1978 she moved to New England and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she is now Professor of English. A Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review

The Massachusetts Review

The Massachusetts Review is a national literary journal founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst....

, she is a member of The Authors Guild, PEN, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She resides in Western Massachusetts and on Cape Cod.

Awards

• ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award for Saying Goodbye to Lulu.
• Finalist, Massachusetts Book Award, The Disappearing Island.
• PEN Syndicated Fiction Competition winner.
• Lawrence Foundation Prize for the best story to appear in Michigan Quarterly Review.
• Breakthrough Contest winner, University of Missouri Press.
• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.

Books

• Everything I Was (YA novel), Lerner/Carolrhoda, 2011
• The Writing Circle (novel), Hyperion/Voice, July 2010. Paperback, 2011.
• The Donkeys Postpone Gratification (poetry collection), Finishing Line Press, 2009.
• Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (Editor), Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 2004.
• Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948—1968 (memoir), State University of New York Press, 2000. Paperback,2002.
• If Ever I Return Again (middle-grade novel), HarperCollins, 2000.

French edition, Si Je Reviens, Bayard Jeunesse, 2002.

• What We Save for Last (short story collection), Milkweed Editions, 1992.
• Daffodils or the Death of Love (short story collection), University of Missouri Press, 1983.
• The Same River Twice (novel), Athenaeum, 1982.

Children's picture books and easy readers

• Halloween Surprise (picture book, illustrated by R. W. Alley), Walker & Company, 2011.
• Pirates Go To School (picture book, illustrated by John Manders), Orchard Books/Scholastic, 2011.
• Always in Trouble (picture book, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones), Scholastic, 2009.
• Valentine Surprise (picture book, illustrated by R. W. Alley), Walker & Company, 2008. Paperback, 2009.
• Yuck! Stuck in the Muck (leveled reader, illustrated by Laura Rader), Scholastic, 2006.
• Two Christmas Mice , Holiday House (picture book, illustrated by Stephanie Roth), 2005.
• Saying Goodbye to Lulu , (picture book, illustrated by Ard Hoyt), Little, Brown, 2004. Paperback, 2009.
• The Magic Apple (retelling of a Jewish folktale, illustrated by Alexi Natchev), Golden Books, 2002. Random House, 2004.
• The Boy Who was Generous With Salt, (picture book, illustrated by Michael Hays), Cavendish Children's Books, Marshall Cavendish, 2002.
• The Perfect Pony (leveled reader), Random House, 2000.
• Nina's Waltz (picture book, illustrated by Deborah Lanino), Orchard Books, 2000.
• The Disappearing Island (picture book, illustrated by Ted Lewin), Simon & Schuster, 2000.
• Hurricane! (picture book), Cavendish Children's Books, Marshall Cavendish, 2000.
• The Littlest Matryoshka (picture book, illustrated by Kathryn Brown), Hyperion Books for Children, 1999.
• Snow Day (sequel to The Shortest Kid in the World, illustrated by Nancy Poydar), Random House, 1998.
• Electra and the Charlotte Russe (picture book, illustrated by Michael Garland), Boyds Mills Press, 1997.
• The Shortest Kid in the World (leveled reader, illustrated by Nancy Poydar), Random House, 1995.
• Matthew's Meadow (environmental fable, illustrated by Ted Lewin), Harcourt Brace, 1992. Voyager Books (paperback), 1997.

Adapted for stage by the Regional Touring Theatre Company of Western Illinois University (produced Spring, 1994).

• That Dog Melly! (picture book, illustrated by the author), Hastings House,1981.

Short stories

• "Last Stars," Notre Dame Review, No. 22 (Summer, 2006).
• "After the Abernathys," The Women’s Times, Vol. 7, No. 4 (August, 2005).
• "In Memory of a Lovely Afternoon," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXII, Nos. 3/4 (Summer, Fall, 2000).
• "The Village," Notre Dame Review, No. 2 (Summer, 1996).
• "Mirrors," American Literary Review, Vol. VI, No.1 (Spring, 1995).
• "Certain Treacheries," Harvard Review, No. 3 (Winter, 1993).
• "Learning Greek," The Southern Review, Vol.28, No.3 (July, 1992).
• "In the Perfect Privacy of His Own Mind," Glimmer Train, Issue No. 2 (Spring, 1992).
• "Luba By Night," Fiction, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring, 1991).
• "Swimming to Albania," Shenandoah, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 1991).
• "The Other Side," The Agni Review, 28, (Spring, 1989).
• "Small Sins," Columbia, Vol. 14, No. 4 (February–March, 1989).
• "Birthday Card." Special Report: Fiction, (February–April,1989).
• "Forbidden Waters," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 64, (Winter 1988).
• "Breaking Trail," The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine, (December 15, 1988).
• "Babylove," The Agni Review , 24/25 (Fall, 1987).Reprinted in Birth, A Literary Companion, edited by Kristin Kovacic and Lynne Barrett , University of Iowa Press. Fall, 2002.
• "The Dream Broker," Redbook, (July, 1987).
• "The Cutting Edge of the Snow," O. Henry Festival Stories, 1987
• "Memorial Day," (PEN Syndicated Fiction Competition winner) San Francisco Chronicle (May 24, 1987); St. Petersburg Times (May 30, 1987); Kansas City Star (June 12, 1988). Produced by National Public Radio for NPR Playhouse: The Sound of Writing II.
• "What We Save for Last" The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine, January 3, 1987, New England Living, December, 1990.
• "Payment" (originally titled "Reparations") McCall's, (August, 1986).
• "Headlines," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 3 (Summer, 1985). (winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize.)
• "American Authors Incorporated," Fiction Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 10 (Summer, 1985).
• "Separate Lives," The Agni Review, 22 (Spring, 1985).
• "Among the Lettuce," Cutbank 23, (Spring, 1985).
• "Ears," The Boston Review, Vol. IX, No. 5 (October, 1984).
• "Margaret, Are You Grieving?," Mademoiselle, (April, 1984).
• "Consuming Passion," (originally titled "Pizza") Mademoiselle, (February,1984).
• "Third Street," The Boston Globe Magazine, (December 6, 1981).
• "Lester Schwabb I, II, III, IV, V," Ploughshares Special Fiction Issue, (Fall, 1980).
• "Roommates," (originally titled "Peter Rabbit") Esquire, Vol. 93, No. 4 (April, 1980).
• "Light Boat," The Madison Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1979).
• "Mt. Kisco," The Old Red Kimona, Vol. VII (Spring, 1979).
• "Secrets," Secrets and Other Stories by Women, Gallimaufry 14, 1979.
• "Horse Throws Rider in Field," Newsart, The New York Smith, Vol. 2, No. 5 (August, 1978).
• "Daffodils or the Death of Love," The Agni Review, 9 (Fall, 1978).
• "Rings," The Ohio Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (Fall, 1977).
• "McCaferty and Sons," Tales, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall, 1976).
• "Mr. Lundy," Kansas Quarterly, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall, 1976).
• "Slow Moose," Transatlantic Review, Nos. 53/54 (February, 1976).
• "Traveling During Pregnancy," The Little Magazine, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1975–76).
• "Fly," Women Becoming, Vol. 2, No. 1 (February, 1974).
• "Holy Grail," Fragments, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (1973).
• "Winter-Tight Lodgings," Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall,1973).

Selected Non-fiction

• “Our Town,” Op-Ed, The New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 2006.
• Letter to the Editor, response to "The Upscaling of Stuyvesant Town," The New York Times, February 18, 2001.
• "An Accidental Utopia", The New York Times, Sunday, November 19, 2000.
• Review of The Tales of Arturo Vivante, Harvard Review, Premier Issue (Spring, 1992).
• "Coyotes," Columbia (Summer 1990).
• "Against the Current: A Conversation with Anita Desai
  Anita Desai
  Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
  
  ," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3 (Fall, 1988). Reprinted in Anita Desai: Critical Perspectives , edited by Devindra Kohli and Melanie Maria Just, Pencraft International, 2008.

Poetry

• "Smalls," New England Watershed Magazine, June/July 2006.
• "To You There in Dayton" and "Diaphragm Poem," Images, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall, 1977).
• "Pact," Poetry &, Vol. 2, No. 1 (July–August, 1977).
• "Blue Hole," Poetry &, Vol. 1, No. 11 (June, 1977).

External links

• Official Corinne Demas Website