Corrina Wycoff
Corrina Wycoff is an American writer, best known for her 2007 short story collection, O Street. The book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007.[1]
Profile
The following appears in O Street:
Corrina Wycoff’s fiction and essays have appeared in Other Voices, New Letters, Coal City Review, The Oregon Quarterly, Brainchild, Out of Line, Golden Handcuffs, and the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and The Clear Cut Future. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She lives with her son Asher in Seattle, Washington, and teaches English and writing at Pierce College. [2]
Awards and honors
In 1999 Wycoff won the second annual Heartland Short Fiction Prize for her stories "Afterbirth" and "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo;" "Afterbirth" was subsequently published in New Letters magazine.[3] Wycoff was a recipient of the John L. and Naomi Luvaas Graduate Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon in 2000.[4] Wycoff was also a 2003 recipient of a Hugo House Award, which honors writers in the Seattle community and is named for American poet Richard Hugo.[5] Her poem "Rita" was chosen in 2004 for Seattle's Poetry on Buses program, which displays poetry on interior bus placards.[6] In 2007, her short story collection O Street The book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction.[1]
Works
- O Street (short story collection), OV Books (2007)
- "O Street" (short story), Other Voices magazine (Fall/Winter 2006) [7] and O Street (2007)
- "The Shell Game" (short story), Coal City Review (2006) [8] and O Street (2007)
- "Rita" (poem), Seattle Poetry on Buses program (2004)
- "Another Oregon Trail" (essay), Best Essays Northwest (2003) [9]
- "Rebecca" (short story), Other Voices magazine (Fall/Winter 2002) [10]
- "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in O Street (2007)
- "Afterbirth" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in New Letters (1999) [11] and O Street (2007)
References
- ^ a b Gonzalez, Antonio (April 30, 2007). "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Recipients and Finalists". LambdaLiterary.org. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/30/lambda-literary-awards-2007-2/. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^ Wycoff, Corrina. O Street. OV Books, 2007, ISBN 0-976-71772-7.
- ^ 1999 Award winners ~ Poets & Writers magazine
- ^ Standout Scholars 2000 ~ CAS.UOregon.edu
- ^ Hugo House Awards
- ^ Poetry on Buses ~ Metro Online
- ^ Other Voices magazine, 2006, Vol. 45.
- ^ Coal City Review, 2006, Vol. 21.
- ^ Best Essays Northwest. University of Oregon Press, 2003, ISBN 0-871-14303-8.
- ^ Other Voices magazine, 2002, Vol. 37.
- ^ New Letters magazine, 1999, Vol. 65 No. 2, page 139.
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