Corrina Wycoff Explained

Corrina Wycoff
Occupation:	Writer Professor
Language:	English
Nationality:	American
Genre:	Fiction
Notableworks:	O Street Damascus House

Corrina Wycoff is an American writer known for her 2007 short story collection O Street and 2016 novel Damascus House. O Street was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007.

Education and career

Wycoff holds an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and taught English at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington.^{[1] [2]}

Her 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.^[1]

Michelle Abbott wrote of Wycoff in the Puyallup Post:

Works

• "Afterbirth" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in New Letters (1999)^{[3] [4]} and O Street (2007),^[1] and excerpted in Oregon Quarterly (2007)^[5]
• "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999),^[3] published in O Street (2007)^[1]
• "Rebecca" (short story), Other Voices magazine (Fall/Winter 2002)^[6]
• "The Adjunct" (short story), The Clear Cut Future (2003)^{[7] [8]}
• "Another Oregon Trail" (essay), Best Essays Northwest (2003)^{[9] [10]}
• "Rita" (poem), Seattle Poetry on Buses program (2004)^{[11] [12]}
• "The Shell Game" (short story), Coal City Review (2006)^[13] and O Street (2007)^[1]
• "O Street" (short story), Other Voices magazine (Fall/Winter 2006),^[14] Golden Handcuffs Review (Summer/Fall 2006)^[15] and O Street (2007)^[1]
• O Street (short story collection), OV Books (2007)^{[1] [2] [16] [17] [18]}
• Damascus House (novel), Spuyten Duyvil Publishing (2016)^[19]

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.^{[3] [4]} 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.^[20] 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.^[21] Her poem "Rita" was chosen in 2004 for Seattle's Poetry on Buses program, which displays poetry on interior bus placards.^[11] In 2007, her short story collection O Street was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction.^[22]

Personal life

A single mother, Wycoff had her son Asher at age 23.^[23] She lives in Seattle, Washington.^[1]

External links

• Web site: Corrina Wycoff: The Gift of Heresy (Audio interview) . Jack Straw Writers Program . August 2, 2007 . July 2, 2014.
• Web site: The Long Way . Full Grown People . Corrina . Wycoff . April 26, 2016 . May 3, 2016.

Notes and References

1. Book: Wycoff, Corrina . . . 2007 . 978-0-9767177-2-0.
2. Web site: Debut Prism . . Christopher . Frizzelle . April 26, 2007 . April 14, 2016.
3. Web site: 1999 Award winners: New Letters Heartland Short Fiction Prize . https://web.archive.org/web/20070621143545/http://pw.org/mag/ga9903.htm . March 1999 . June 21, 2007 . . July 1, 2014 .
4. Afterbirth . https://web.archive.org/web/20140701161132/http://newletters.org/magazine/volume-65-issue-2 . July 1, 2014 . Wycoff . Corrina . . 1999 . 65 . 2 . 139 . July 1, 2014.
5. Labor and Management . . Wycoff . Corrina . 2007 . 86 . 3 . 15–16 . July 1, 2014.
6. Rebecca. Wycoff . Corrina . Other Voices . 2002 . 37 . July 1, 2014.
7. Book: Wycoff, Corrina . . . The Adjunct . 2003 . 978-0972323413 . 210–239.
8. Web site: Between the Lines: Washington State Library Blog . Will . Stuivenga . November 30, 2011 . July 2, 2014.
9. Book: Wycoff, Corrina . . . Another Oregon Trail . 2003 . 978-0871143037.
10. Book: Jackson, Rachel . Reading for — and about — a rainy day . . March 1, 2004 . July 2, 2014.
11. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20021204121200/http://transit.metrokc.gov/prog/poetry/poetry.html . Poetry on Buses . 2002 . December 4, 2002 . Metro Online . July 1, 2014.
12. Web site: Rita. https://web.archive.org/web/20040606151357/http://www.transit.metrokc.gov/prog/poetry/2004/59_wycoff.html . Wycoff . Corrina . 2004 . June 6, 2004 . Metro Online . July 1, 2014 .
13. The Shell Game . Coal City Review. Wycoff . Corrina . 2006 . 21 . July 1, 2014.
14. O Street . . Wycoff . Corrina . 2006 . 45 . July 1, 2014.
15. O Street . Corrina . Wycoff . Golden Handcuffs Review . 2006 . 1 . 7 . 2014-07-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120217112535/http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/past/gh7.html . 2012-02-17 . dead .
16. Web site: O Street: Stories . January 8, 2007 . . July 1, 2014.
17. Web site: Chicks and Balances . Gretchen . Kalwinsky . . 107 . March 15–21, 2007 . April 6, 2016.
18. Web site: O Street: Strong first novel of a painful mother-daughter bond . Michael . Upchurch . . April 20, 2007 . April 4, 2016.
19. Web site: Damascus House by Corrina Wycoff . Spuyten Duyvil Publishing . April 28, 2016.
20. Web site: Standout Scholars 2000 . https://web.archive.org/web/20020701204923/http://cas.uoregon.edu/alumnidev/cascade/200011scholarships.html . 2000 . July 1, 2002 . CAS.UOregon.edu . July 1, 2014.
21. Web site: 2003 Hugo and Founders Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20040223103341/http://www.hugohouse.org/awards.html . 2003 . February 23, 2004 . HugoHouse.org . July 1, 2014.
22. Web site: 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Recipients and Finalists . April 30, 2007 . Antonio . Gonzalez . LambdaLiterary.org . October 10, 2010.
23. Web site: Single Motherhood, Poverty and Literature . Corrina . Wycoff . GinaFrangello.blogs.com . June 18, 2007 . February 2, 2016.