Corey Campbell is a fiction writer originally from the Denver suburbs whose short stories have appeared in journals including Story, The Gettysburg Review, Colorado Review, Salamander, Nashville Review, and the anthology Buffalo Cactus and Other New Stories from the Southwest. She spent several years leading a fiction workshop for incarcerated writers in Florence, AZ, and several more years volunteering on a suicide helpline in Iowa.
Her writing has received support from the Iowa Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Inprint, University of Houston, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Artist Catalyst Grant from the Iowa Arts Council in 2023 and the Larry Levis Postgraduate Award in Fiction from Friends of Writers in 2021. Campbell is a graduate of both the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
While at MacDowell, Campbell completed a full (yet early) draft of her untitled first novel, which is set in rural Iowa in the 1990s.
