Corinne Demas grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, the subject of her new 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 Mt. 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 VITA. You can also read an interview published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Listen to her October 13, 2004 commentary on Public Radio.

Eleven Stories High:
Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town,
1948-1968
(memoir)
Published by SUNY Press
Hardcover September, 2000
Paperback July, 2002

Great American Short Stories:
From Hawthorne to Hemingway
(Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
(edited collection with introduction)
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
May 2004

What We Save for Last
(short story collection)
Published by Milkweed Editions, 1992

If Ever I Return Again
(novel)
Published by HarperCollins
June, 2000

The Same River Twice
(novel)
Published by Athenaeum, 1982

Daffodils or the Death of Love
(short story collection)
Published by University of Missouri Press, 1983