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. They are 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). Born and raised in Chicago, they now live in Pittsburgh.
They are the translation editor at The Offing and the recipient of grants and fellowships including from Lambda Literary, MASS MoCA, and the Vermont Studio Center. Their 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.
At the University of Pittsburgh, where they are a PhD candidate in Critical & Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Composition & Rhetoric, they have taught courses in composition, literature, and creative writing as well as co-taught the graduate pedagogy course. They are a Humanities Engage fellow for the 2022-23 academic year, writing a dissertation on forms of knowledge in trans and genderqueer writing, and their peer-reviewed work appears in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, College Composition and Communication, and QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. Please contact me for a copy of my academic CV, or for more information about my research and teaching.
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