Corinne Demas

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-eight books, including six novels (among them The Road Towards Home and The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant own), a poetry chapbook (The Donkeys Postpone Gratification), a play, and numerous books for children (among them Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Littlest Matryoshka, and The Perfect Tree). Her short stories have appeared in more than fifty publications. She is the editor of Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway.

Demas 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. To learn more, visit the author’s website at www.CorinneDemas.com.