Corinne Demas

Corinne Demas
Occupation Writer, College professor
Nationality American
Period 1969 to present
Genres Literary Fiction, Children's fiction, Memoir

www.corinnedemas.com

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.

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Personal

Corinne Demas grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, 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, and completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

She lived in Pittsburgh for a decade, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham College. In 1978 she moved to New England and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she is now Professor of English.[1] A Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review, 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.[2]

Awards

Publications

Books

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

Children's picture books and easy readers

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

Short stories

Selected Non-fiction

Poetry

Plays

Notes and references

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