Corinna vallianatos biography samples

Corinna Vallianatos is the author of the novel The Beforeland (October 2020), and the story collection My Escapee (Massachusetts Press, 2015), winner of the 2011 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

Her story collection was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Vallianatos is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Corinna vallianatos biography samples

In a review of The Beforeland, The New York Times wrote, “Vallianatos’s gorgeous descriptions. . . provide a dreamy quality to the windswept lives of her characters, who scheme at building something bigger for themselves.

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. . . Vallianatos’s haunting and precise writing captures the folly of believing in possibility in a country where capitalism is king and most are left out of its abundance.”

Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, The Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, The Idaho Review, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere.

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