Bio

Jonathan Corcoran is the author of two books. His memoir, No Son of Mine (University Press of Kentucky, 2024), received starred reviews in Kirkus and Foreword and was named a best book of the year by Book Riot. No Son of Mine was a finalist for multiple awards, including the Weatherford Award for the best book about Appalachia, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, and the Catalyst Awards for first-generation storytelling. No Son of Mine received a Portuguese translation as Já Não és Meu Filho and became a best-seller in Portugal. Corcoran’s story collection, The Rope Swing (WVU Press, 2016), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. His essays and stories have been published and anthologized widely, including in Belt Magazine, Salvation South, Still: The Journal, Best Gay Stories, and the Oxford University Press textbook, How Writing Works. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Jonathan teaches writing at New York University and has been a guest faculty member at the Wildacres Writers Workshop, the Appalachian Writers Workshop, and the West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Residency MFA program. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more at jonathancorcoranwrites.com.