Lucy Corin is an American

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and

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writer. The winner of the 2012

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Writer's Fund

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, Corin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 and a

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creative writing fellowship in 2015.

Writing

Her collection of short stories, ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'', was published by McSweeney's in 2013. ''

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'' 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." 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." 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." Corin's stories have appeared in ''The Mid-American Review'', '' Conjunctions'', ''

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,'' ''

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'', ''

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'', 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

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. Her novel, ''Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls'' was published in 2004 by

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. Her short story collection, ''The Entire Predicament'' was published in 2007 by

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. She is the program director for the

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Creative Writing Program.

Selected awards and recognition

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

, 2023 *

, Creative writing fellowship, 2015 *

John Guare Writer's Fund

, 2012 *

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Residency, 2010 *

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Fellow in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2008 *Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2006

Bibliography

*''The Swank Hotel'', Graywolf, 2021 *''100 Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'' (short story collection)

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, September 2013 * ''The Entire Predicament'' (short story collection)

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. 2007 * ''Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls''

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. 2004

References

External links

LucyCorin.com - Official Website and Blog
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Writing

Selected awards and recognition

Bibliography

Further reading

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