Corinne Demas
 Professor of English
23 8 Park Street
(413) 538-2801
office hours: M 4:00 & by appt.
cdemas@mtholyoke.edu
Education
A.B. Tufts University
A.M. Columbia University
M.Phil. Columbia University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Corinne
Demas has been teaching both literatures and creative writing courses
at Mount.Holyoke since 1978. Her area of specialty is the short story.
She is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories,
and numerous books for children.
Her most
recent books include a memoir, Eleven Stories High, Growing
Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968, and a novel, If Ever
I Return Again, based on research she did during her sabbatical
last year on women who went on whaling journeys in the mid-nineteenth
century. She is a fiction editor of The Massachusetts Review.
Also, visit Corinne
Demas' personal website.
Selected Publications
Note: Publications
before 2000 are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss
Forty short stories published in a variety of literary journals and
magazines including:
- The Kenyon Review
- The Southern Review
- Glimmer Train
- Shenandoah
- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Harvard Review
- Boston Review
- Agni Review
- Ploughshares
- American Literary Review
- Redbook
- McCall's
- Mademoiselle
- Esquire
Books
- Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (Editor),
Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 2004.
- Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948--1968
(memoir), State University of New York Press. September 2000.
- What We Save for Last (short story collection), Milkweed
Editions, 1992.
- Daffodils or the Death of Love (short story collection),
University of Missouri Press, 1983.
- The Same River Twice (novel), Athenaeum, 1982.
Children's Books
- Saying Goodbye to Lulu (picture book, illustrated by Ard
Hoyt), Little, Brown, Spring, 2004.
- The Boy Who was Generous With Salt (picture book, illustrated
by Michael Hays), Cavendish Children's Books, Marshall Cavendish,
2002.
- The Magic Apple (retelling of a Jewish folktale, illustrated
by Alexi Natchev), Golden Books, 2002.
- Nina's Waltz (picture book, illustrated by Deborah Lanino),
Orchard Books, 2000.
- If Ever I Return Again (middle-grade novel), HarperCollins.
Spring 2000. French edition, Si Je Reviens, Bayard Jeunesse. Fall,
2002
- Hurricane! (picture book, illustrated by Lenice Strohmeier),
Cavendish Children's Books, Marshall Cavendish, 2000.
- The Disappearing Island (picture
book, illustrated by Ted Lewin), Simon & Schuster, 2000.
- The Perfect Pony (leveled reader, illustrated by Jacqueline
Rogers), Random House, 2000.
- The Littlest Matryoshka (picture book, illustrated by
Kathryn Brown), Hyperion Books for Children, 1999.
- Snow Day (sequel to The Shortest Kid in the World, illustrated
by Nancy Poydar), Random House, 1998.
- Electra and the Charlotte Russe (picture book, illustrated
by Michael Garland), Boyds Mills Press, 1997.
- The Shortest Kid in the World (leveled reader, illustrated
by Nancy Poydar), Random House, 1995.
- Matthew's Meadow (environmental fable, illustrated by
Ted Lewin), Harcourt Brace, 1992. Voyager Books (paperback), 1997.
Adapted
for stage by the Regional Touring Theatre
Company of Western Illinois University (produced Spring, 1994).
- That Dog Melly! (picture book, illustrated by the author),
Hastings House,1981
Teaching Schedule 2007-2008
English 201f Introduction to Creative Writing
English 303s Short Story Writing II
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