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Wycoff holds an Master of Arts in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and teaches English and writing at Pierce College in Seattle, Washington.
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O Street
( Powerful stories of a woman caught in the long shadow c...)
Powerful stories of a woman caught in the long shadow cast by the love of her mother The tightly linked stories of Corrina Wycoff's gripping debut collection follow the life of Elizabeth Dinard. Raised in poverty by a schizophrenic single mother who self-medicates with heroin, Elizabeth experiences a childhood fraught with emotional and financial insecurity, as well as darker exploitations. Now living a fragmented and desperate adulthood, she continually attempts to outrun her brutal past but proves unable to let go of her love for the charismatic, lawless mother who continues to haunt her. In her struggles as she ages, leaves home, moves through lovers, loses her mother to suicide, and eventually becomes a single mother herself, Elizabeth's gritty determination to simply survive--to exist--is an enormous, if bittersweet, victory.
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Corrina Wycoff
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The book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Other Voices, New Letters, Coal City Review, The Oregon Quarterly, Brainchild, Out of Lincolnshire, Golden Handcuffs, and the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and The Clear Cut Future.
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In 1999 Wycoff won the second annual Heartland Short Fiction Prize for her stories "Afterbirth" and "Visiting Mistress Ferullo," and "Afterbirth" was subsequently published in New Letters magazine. Wycoff was a recipient of the John L. and Naomi Luvaas Graduate Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon in 2000. 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. In 2007, her short story collection O Street was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction.
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Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.
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Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.