Corinne Demas

Vita and Bibliography

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.
Dissertation topic: The Short Story: Writer's Control/Reader's Response.

M. Phil., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.
     Areas of specialization: contemporary British and American literature, Shakespeare, seventeenth century, comparative      short story.

M.A., highest honors, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.

A.B., magna cum laude, Jackson College, Tufts University.

Diploma, Hunter College High School, New York, N.Y.

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College

Fiction Editor, The Massachusetts Review.

FELLOWSHIPS

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.

PRIZES

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.

PUBLICATIONS

Note:

Publications in 1999 and before are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss. Publications in 2000 and after are under the name Corinne Demas.

BOOKS

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.

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 BOOKS

Always in Trouble (picture book, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones), to be published by Scholastic, Spring 2009.

Valentine Surprise (picture book, illustrated by R. W. Alley), Walker & Company, Winter 2008.

Yuck! Stuck in the Muck (leveled reader, illustrated by Laura Rader), Scholastic, Spring 2006.

Two Christmas Mice , Holiday House (picture book, illustrated by Stephanie Roth), Fall, 2005.

Saying Goodbye to Lulu , (picture book, illustrated by Ard Hoyt), Little, Brown, 2004.

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.

If Ever I Return Again (middle-grade novel), HarperCollins, 2000.

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

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).

"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).

CHILDREN'S STORY

"Furball's Furcut," Ladybug Magazine Vol. 2, No. 6 (February, 1992).

RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMENTARIES AND INTERVIEWS

“Author Snapshots” interview for “WGBY Reads” on-air literacy fair, WGBY TV, aired November 17, 2001.

“Coyotes,” commentary on “All Things Considered,” National Public Radio, December 29, 2000.

"New York & Co.", interview with host Leonard Lopate, WNYC Radio, New York City, September 18, 2000.

“Here and Now” interview with Robin Young, WBUR Radio, June 26, 2000.

“Cape Cod Journal” interview with Bob Seay, WOMR Radio, July 7, 2000.

Interview with Naomi Arenberg WCAI/WNAN Radio, July 27, 2000.

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).

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).

Short Review of Even Now by Michelle Latiolais, Seventeen, (December 1990).

"Coyotes," Columbia (Summer 1990).

Short review of Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad by Bebe Moore Campbell, Seventeen, (August, 1989).

"Against the Current: A Conversation with Anita Desai," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3 (Fall, 1988).

"Older Mommies," Columbia, Vol. 14, No. 2 (November, 1988).

"Secrets, Power and the Polls," ("Private Lives" column) St. Petersburg Times, November 2, 198

"The Final Indignities of An Author," Poets & Writers Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 2 March/April, 1988.

"The Dillman Dogs," ("Private Lives" column) St. Petersburg Times, January 27, 1988.

Review of The Heroic Age, by Stratis Haviaras, The Boston Review, Vol. IX, No. 3 (June, 1984).

"Living Like Gypsies," Pittsburgh Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 10 (October, 1977).

"Going into a Trance," Pittsburgh Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8 (August, 1977).

"Rediscovering the Broadway Limited," Pittsburgh Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 2 (October, 1977).

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