Corinne M. Demas

Professor of English

Specialization
Fiction writing; the short story (genre); writing children's literature; twentieth-century British and American literature

Corinne Demas teaches courses in literature and creative writing. She is the author of a novel, two collections of short stories, and numerous books for children, including the award-winning The Disappearing Island. (Her books published before 2000 are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss.)

Demas's 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 year on women who went on whaling journeys in the mid-nineteenth century. She is fiction editor of The Massachusetts Review.

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

News Link:

"Professor Demas Reflects on Stuyvesant Town," New York Times, September 3, 2006