Corrina Wycoff

Corrina Wycoff is an American writer known for her 2007 short story collection O Street and 2016 novel Damascus House. O Street was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007.

Education and career Wycoff holds an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and taught English at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington.

Her fiction and essays have appeared in Other Voices, New Letters, Coal City Review, The Oregon Quarterly, Brainchild, Out of Line, Golden Handcuffs, and the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and The Clear Cut Future.

Works "Afterbirth" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in New Letters (1999) and O Street (2007), "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), "The Adjunct" (short story), The Clear Cut Future (2003) "Another Oregon Trail" (essay), Best Essays Northwest (2003) "Rita" (poem), Seattle Poetry on Buses program (2004) "The Shell Game" (short story), Coal City Review (2006) and O Street (2007) Golden Handcuffs Review (Summer/Fall 2006) and O Street (2007) Damascus House (novel), Spuyten Duyvil Publishing (2016)

Awards and honors In 1999 Wycoff won the second annual Heartland Short Fiction Prize for her stories "Afterbirth" and "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo," and "Afterbirth" was subsequently published in New Letters magazine. Wycoff was also a 2003 recipient of a Hugo House Award, which honors writers in the Seattle community and is named for American poet Richard Hugo. Her poem "Rita" was chosen in 2004 for Seattle's Poetry on Buses program, which displays poetry on interior bus placards.

Personal life A single mother, Wycoff had her son Asher at age 23. She lives in Seattle, Washington.