Jonathan Corcoran

Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the story collection, The Rope Swing, published in 2016 by West Virginia University Press. The Rope Swing was a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. His stories have been anthologized in Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia and Best Gay Stories 2017. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Jonathan is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University and serves as a Visiting Writer in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Brown University (2003 — 2007)
• Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark (2010 — 2012)

Companies

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing, Liberal Arts New York University (2020)
• Author Self (2015)
• Adjunct Professor Rutgers University (2010)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Wesleyan University (2017 — 2018)
• Department Administrator NYU Stern School of Business (2014 — 2016)
• Executive Assistant Egon Zehnder (2013 — 2014)
• Executive Assistant D. E. Shaw & Co. (2008 — 2010)
• Staff Writer, Reporter The Inter-Mountain Newspaper (2001 — 2005)

Skills

• Social Media
• Journalism
• Research

Other

Public Speaking, Teaching, Copy Editing, Literature, Higher Education, Editing, Writing, Proofreading, Creative Writing