Jill Collins McCorkle (July 7, 1958
Lumberton, North Carolina
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) is an American
short story writer
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and
novelist
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.
She graduated from
University of North Carolina
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, in 1980, where she studied with
Max Steele
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,
Lee Smith Lee Smith is the name of:
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, and
Louis D. Rubin. She also attended
Hollins College
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now
Hollins University
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with Lee Smith where she received her MA. She taught at
Tufts University
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,
University of North Carolina
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,
Duke University
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,
Harvard University
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and
Bennington College
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.
She teaches at
North Carolina State University
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.
Awards
*1993 New England Booksellers Award
*2000
Dos Passos Prize
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*2018 Featured speaker at the Monroe Scholars Book and Authors luncheon.
Works
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Stories available online
"Going Away Shoes" ''Blackbird'', Fall, 2007
"Magic Words" ''Narrative'', Fall 2008
Sources
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References
External links
Author's website ''AGNI online'', Sherry Ellis
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20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
American women short story writers
1958 births
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Hollins University alumni
Tufts University faculty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Duke University faculty
Harvard University faculty
Bennington College faculty
North Carolina State University faculty
Living people
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American short story writers
Writers of American Southern literature
Novelists from Massachusetts
Novelists from Vermont
American women academics
21st-century American women