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.
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 Jackson College, 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. 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.
"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.
“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," 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).
