Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-nine books, including six novels (Daughters, The Road Towards Home, The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948--1968), a poetry chapbook, numerous books for children (The Littlest Matryoshka, Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Disappearing Island, The Perfect Tree) and two plays. Her short stories have appeared in more than fifty publications. She is a Professor Emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction reader for The Massachusetts Review.
She grew up in New York City, graduated from Tufts University, and earned a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Her awards include: Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Fiction Winner, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.
Along with her family, two donkeys, and a precocious puppy, she divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod, two settings that have inspired her books.
