BIO

Corie Rosen is a fiction writer, poet, and arts educator.

She grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and attended UC Berkeley.  At Berkeley, she studied with MacArthur Genius and cultural icon Ishmael Reed, who told her she was among the very best young writers he had ever encountered. Under his mentorship, she went on to study with Robert Hass and Maxine Hong Kingston and began to first publish her work.

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 story “An Object in Motion,” a twist on the classic love story, follows a pair former lovers who reunite in secret Southern California, only to learn that they have competing—and darkly complicated—plans for one another. That story appeared in Two Cities Review, a journal edited by a pair of award-winning writers, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017.

She spent ten years teaching writing in law schools and is a former member of the faculties at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado. Currently, she lives in Denver with her husband, where she is at work on a novel and a book of poems.