About meChantal Corcoran is a short story writer and Pushcart Prize nominee who's recently completed her first novel, an upmarket psychological thriller about a missing boy told in conflicting narratives. Think Gone Girl meets Bad Art Friend (of the NYT piece) meets Stepford Wives (the 70s version.) She's currently seeking agent representation.
Chantal is also finishing a collection of short stories, some of which you can read here. A Canadian living in America for these last 20 years, Chantal studied English Literature at Carleton University where she fell in love with writers like Dickens, Austen, Atwood and, especially, Munro. In 2010, she completed an MFA in fiction at Bennington College where she finally came to read American classics by Hemingway, Twain, Steinbeck, Paley, Olsen and Ford. She's been influenced by them all. William Trevor is also a favorite. It was 20 years ago, when Richard Russo's Empire Falls transported her to a town that felt so much like home (small town Ontario, Canada) that Chantal began to write. "As Saul Bellow said, "A writer is a reader moved to emulation." |
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