Corinna Vallianatos joins our faculty in Fall 2025 as Associate Professor of Practice and the faculty advisor for Meridian. She is the author of the novel The Beforeland, and two collections of stories, My Escapee, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and Origin Stories, described by the New York Times as "shrewd meditations on ambition, shame, artistic boundaries and more." Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, BOMB, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, LitMag, and elsewhere, and she’s a MacDowell and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellow. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, her MFA from the University of Arizona, and has taught in the University of Tampa's low-residency MFA program and at Claremont McKenna College.