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Lucy Corin Assistant Professor of English

M.F.A. Brown '94
B.A. Duke '92

Lucy Corin is a fiction writer. Her work has appeared in a journals including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Conjunctions, and Fiction International and anthologies such as Algonquin's New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (1997 and 2003), and The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Narrative. Her novel, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls was published by FC2 in 2004.She was a Walter E. Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference in 2006. Her latest book, The Entire Predicament, was published in 2007.

Publication Spotlight

The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin In this refreshing, funny, and startling collection of stories, Lucy Corin veers far from the path of staid contemporary fiction. She masterfully weaves traditional and experimental topics and techniques, creating a fictional world where people behave normally in the most extreme situations, and in bizarrely with almost no provocation at all. But thanks to her vivid, sharp prose and insightful first-person voices, even the oddest behavior is utterly believable. Unpredictable and playful, these stories transcend their apocalyptic feel to offer a vision that is clear, humane, and completely engaging. The Entire Predicament secures Corin’s reputation as an original, stylistically courageous voice in contemporary avant-garde fiction.

Selected Publications

• The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin. (exerpt from the novel available at http://www.tinhouse.com/books/books_coming.htm
• Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls by Lucy Corin. (exerpt from the novel available at http://fc2.org/corin/psychokillers/excerpt.htm)
• "Who Buried the Baby" by Lucy Corin, from Ploughshares, Spring 2001 (available at http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7033)
• "Wizend" by Lucy Corin, from Ploughshares, Winter 1988 (availabe at http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4542)

Email: lcorin@ucdavis.edu