Corinne Demas

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-seven books, including five novels (among them The Writing Circle and Returning to Shore ), two short story collections, a memoir ( Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948 1968 ), a poetry chapbook ( The Donkeys Postpone Gratification ), a play, and numerous books for children (including Saying Goodbye to Lulu , The Littlest Matryoshka , and The Disappearing Island ). Her short stories have appeared in more than fifty...See more

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-seven books, including five novels (among them The Writing Circle and Returning to Shore ), two short story collections, a memoir ( Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948 1968 ), a poetry chapbook ( The Donkeys Postpone Gratification ), a play, and numerous books for children (including Saying Goodbye to Lulu , The Littlest Matryoshka , and The Disappearing Island ). Her short stories have appeared in more than fifty publications. She is also the editor of Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway . Corinne is a professor emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor for the Massachusetts Review . She divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod. Visit Corinne's website at www.CorinneDemas.com, or find her on Twitter @corinnedemas. See less