Corrina Wycoff is an American writer known for her 2007

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collection '' O Street'' and 2016 novel '' Damascus House''. ''O Street'' was nominated for a

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for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007.

Education and career

Wycoff holds an MA in English from the

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, an MFA in

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from the

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, and taught English at Pierce College in

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. Her fiction and essays have appeared in '' Other Voices'', ''

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'', '' Coal City Review'', '' The Oregon Quarterly'', ''Brainchild'', ''Out of Line'', ''Golden Handcuffs'', and the anthologies '' Best Essays Northwest'' and '' The Clear Cut Future''. Michelle Abbott wrote of Wycoff in the ''Puyallup Post'':

Works

* " Afterbirth" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in ''

'' (1999) and ''O Street'' (2007), and excerpted in ''

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'' (2007) * " Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in ''O Street'' (2007) * "Rebecca" (short story), ''Other Voices'' magazine (Fall/Winter 2002) * "The Adjunct" (short story), '' The Clear Cut Future'' (2003) * "Another Oregon Trail" (essay), '' Best Essays Northwest'' (2003) * "Rita" (poem), Seattle Poetry on Buses program (2004) * " The Shell Game" (short story), '' Coal City Review'' (2006) and ''O Street'' (2007) * " O Street" (short story), ''Other Voices'' magazine (Fall/Winter 2006), ''Golden Handcuffs Review'' (Summer/Fall 2006) and ''O Street'' (2007) * '' O Street'' (short story collection),

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(2007) * '' Damascus House'' (novel), Spuyten Duyvil Publishing (2016)

Awards and honors

In 1999 Wycoff won the second annual Heartland Short Fiction Prize for her stories " Afterbirth" and " Visiting Mrs. Ferullo," and "Afterbirth" was subsequently published in ''New Letters'' magazine. 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. Wycoff was also a 2003 recipient of a Hugo House Award, which honors writers in the Seattle community and is named for American poet

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. Her poem "Rita" was chosen in 2004 for Seattle's Poetry on Buses program, which displays poetry on interior bus placards. In 2007, her short story collection ''O Street'' was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction.

Personal life

A single mother, Wycoff had her son Asher at age 23. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

References

External links

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