Jill McCorkle
Jill McCorkle is the author of five novels: The Cheer Leader, July 7th, Tending to Virginia, Ferris Beach and Carolina Moon and three story collections, most recently Creatures of Habit. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South, among other publications. Her stories, along with those of Lee Smith, are the basis of the 1998 theatrical production Good Ol’ Girls, which also includes songs written by Nashville songwriters Matraca Berg and Marshall Chapman. Good Ol' Girls continues to be staged by regional repertory companies. The recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize and the North Carolina Award for Literature, she has taught creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill, Tufts, Harvard, Brandeis and Bennington College. She is currently on faculty at North Carolina State University. Her forthcoming book, Going Away Shoes, will be released in September 2009.
