Corinne Demas
grew up in
New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, the subject of her memoir,
Eleven Stories
High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968. She attended Hunter
College High School, graduated from Jackson
College, Tufts University, and completed a Ph.D. in English and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She lived in Pittsburgh
for a decade, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham
College. In 1978 she moved to New England and began teaching at Mount
Holyoke College, where she is now a professor of English.
A
Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review, she is a member of
The Authors Guild, PEN, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and
Illustrators. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing
Fellowships and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. She's the
winner of a Lawrence Foundation Prize, the University of Missouri
Press's Breakthrough Contest, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Competition.
She
lives with her family in Western Massachusetts and spends the summer on
Cape Cod. She is represented by
McIntosh & Otis Inc.
For more information check her
Bibliography
.
C. Hope Clark
(Hope) founded and serves as editor of
www.FundsforWriters.com
, a well-known writer's reference that reaches 35,000 readers weekly
with grants, markets and motivational editorials that generate
stacks of thank-you notes from readers. Writer's Digest voted FundsforWriters one of its 101 Best Web Sites for Writers for the
past nine years.
Hope's dozen
ebooks are rapid sellers ranging from Grants for the Serious
Writer to Short & Sweet; Markets for Fillers. Hope has published in
magazines like Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, ByLine
Magazine, Next Step Magazine, College Bound Teen, TURF Magazine, and
Landscape Management. The Shy Writer is a nonfiction paperback she
penned to aid writers like her who have difficulty appearing in
public. Published in 2004, it continues to readily sell and was
rereleased as a second edition in Fall 2007.
After 25 years as a
manager with the federal sector, she requested an early retirement
in her forties to write full time and manage FundsforWriters,
marrying her knowledge of grants and her love of writing.
She lives in
Chapin, South Carolina on the banks of Lake Murray, has completed the first
novel of an agricultural mystery series, and has
recently signed with an agent. She is married to a
recently retired federal agent who inspires her love of mystery
writing.
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