Lucy Corin

{{short description|American writer}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Lucy Corin

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'''Lucy Corin''' is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 and a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=2012 John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman|url=http://www.aarome.org/people/lucycorin|work=2012|publisher=American Academy|access-date=11 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Announcements |url=https://www.gf.org/announcements/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Writing == Her collection of short stories, ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'', was published by McSweeney's in 2013. ''Bustle'' wrote: "Corin caters to our fascination with neuroses and habits, and by exaggerating aspects of our thought processes and societal quirks, she leaves us thinking deeply about parts of humanity we don't often examine under a magnifying glass."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thomas|first1=Kelsey|title=Lucy Corin's Short Story Collection, 'One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses,' Addresses the Disturbing Playfully|url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/3577-lucy-corins-short-story-collection-one-hundred-apocalypses-and-other-apocalypses-addresses-the-disturbing-playfully|access-date=31 January 2016|work=Bustle|date=August 14, 2013}}</ref> A review by Jonathan Deuel in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' read: "The dreamy, fairy-tale qualities and allegorical ambitions of these stories are tempered with sophistication and terror, making ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'' ageless...I'm frightened by Corin. I'm dazzled by her writing."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dueul|first1=Jonathan|title=Boats Are in Trees and Photocopiers Are on the Beach: Lucy Corin's "One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses"|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/boats-are-in-trees-and-photocopiers-are-on-the-beach|access-date=31 January 2016|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=October 30, 2013}}</ref>

Corin's second novel, ''The Swank Hotel'', (2021) explores madness, generational trauma, and cultural breakdown. An early review in ''Publishers Weekly'' noted her "limber voice" and stated that ''The Swank Hotel'' "brims with genuine depth and humor."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fiction Book Review: The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corin (400p) ISBN 978-1-64445-066-6|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-64445-066-6|access-date=2021-09-20|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref>

Corin's stories have appeared in ''The Mid-American Review'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Tin House,'' ''Ploughshares'', ''PEN America'', and the ''Iowa Review''. She is anthologized in the 1994 ''Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction'' and both the 1997 and 2003 editions of ''New Stories From the South'' and "Madmen," originally published in ''One Hundred Apocalypses'', was included in the 2015 anthology, ''New American Stories'', edited by Ben Marcus.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lasdun|first1=James|title=New American Stories edited by Ben Marcus review – a landmark anthology|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/12/new-american-stories-ben-marcus-review-anthology|access-date=31 January 2016|work=The Guardian|date=August 12, 2015}}</ref> Her novel, ''Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls'' was published in 2004 by FC2. Her short story collection, ''The Entire Predicament'' was published in 2007 by Tin House Books.

She is the program director for the University of California, Davis Creative Writing Program.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kumamoto|first=Akira Olivia|title=Creative Writing Program names new director|url=http://www.theaggie.org/2013/10/24/creative-writing-program-names-new-director/|work=October 24, 2013|publisher=The Aggie|access-date=11 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lucy Corin|url=http://english.ucdavis.edu/people/directory/lcorin|work=2013|publisher=UC Davis|access-date=11 January 2014}}</ref>

==Selected awards and recognition== *Guggenheim Fellowship, 2023 *National Endowment for the Arts, Creative writing fellowship, 2015 *American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, 2012 *Yaddo Residency, 2010 *Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2008 *Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2006

==Bibliography== *''The Swank Hotel'', Graywolf, 2021 {{ISBN|978-1-64445-066-6}} *''100 Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'' (short story collection) McSweeney's, September 2013 {{ISBN|9781938073335}} * ''The Entire Predicament'' (short story collection) Portland, OR: Tin House Books. 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-9776989-8-1}} * ''Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls'' Tallahassee: FC2. 2004 {{ISBN|1-57366-112-0}}

== Further reading == *[http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/08/book_notes_lucy.html Lucy Corin's Essay at Largehearted Boy: Book Notes] *[http://www.pen.org/fiction-novel/seven-small-apocalypses Seven Small Apocalypses, PEN.org] *[http://www.tinhouse.com/books/catalog_entire_predcmnt_ex.htm Excerpt from ''The Entire Predicament'']

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == *[http://lucycorin.com/ LucyCorin.com - Official Website and Blog]

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