Corie Rosen is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Award, for the Pushcart Prize, and has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction.
She grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and attended UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, she studied with MacArthur Genius and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ishmael Reed, who told her she was among the very best young writers he had ever encountered.
Her poem “Madonna for the Damned,” a meditation on cultural iconography, has been anthologized multiple times, featured on NPR, and is regularly included in high school and college curricula. Her short fiction has also been anthologized and taught.
A former member of the faculties at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado, she spent a decade teaching writing in law schools. As a professor, she frequently addressed groups that numbered into the hundreds and has given dozens of talks across the United States and Europe.
Currently, she is a member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and reads fiction and poetry for The North American Review and Salamander Magazine. Her short book of poems, Words for Things Left Unsaid, was published by Aldrich Press in 2020 and nominated for the National Book Award.