Corinna Vallianatos is the author of a story collection and a novel. Her first book, a story collection, won the 2011 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2023, A Public Space, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. A new collection, Origin Stories, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2025.
At MacDowell in 2011, Vallianatos completed three chapters of her first novel, then tentatively titled Brave Motion. In 2014, she worked on a novel, Visitation.
Studios
Heyward
Corinna Vallianatos worked in the Heyward studio.
The
Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The
Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for
a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for
writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and
Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…
