S. Brook Corfman is the author of My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020, a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans & Gender-Variant Literature, and the winner of the Fordham University Press POL poetry prize judged by Cathy Park Hong. She is also the author of the collection Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and three shorter pieces: the artist book Meteorites (DoubleCross Press), the chaplet Frames (Belladonna* #256), and the collection of performance pieces The Anima (GaussPDF). In 2024 she received the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born and raised in Chicago, she now lives in Pittsburgh.
Corfman is a translation editor at The Offing and the recipient of grants and fellowships including from Lambda Literary, MASS MoCA, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her nonfiction and reviews have appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and The Yale Review, among other places. She has collaborated with visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, playwrights, and musicians.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, a PhD in Critical & Cultural Studies, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Her peer-reviewed work appears in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, College Composition and Communication, and QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. Ongoing projects include a book about Greer Lankton and another based on the work of her dissertation, which argued that writing and artmaking practices can generate gender transition and other changes rather than only report on them afterwards. Please contact me for a copy of my academic CV or for more information about my research and teaching.
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