Deborah Joy Corey
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Deborah Joy Corey is a Canadian
writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award
.
The author of numerous articles and stories, Corey's writings have been published in such literary journals as Ploughshares
, Carolina Quarterly, Crescent Review, Image, and Grain. Born and raised in Temperance Vale
, New Brunswick
, Corey now lives with her husband and two daughters, in a small coastal village in Maine
, a site she used as a model for the setting for her latest novel, The Skating Pond (2003).
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award
Books in Canada First Novel Award
The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada. It has been awarded since 1976....
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The author of numerous articles and stories, Corey's writings have been published in such literary journals as Ploughshares
Ploughshares
Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...
, Carolina Quarterly, Crescent Review, Image, and Grain. Born and raised in Temperance Vale
Temperance Vale, New Brunswick
Temperance Vale is a community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada. A farming and logging area, it was first settled c. 1860 by children of the United Empire Loyalist families who came to Queensbury, New Brunswick in 1784...
, New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
, Corey now lives with her husband and two daughters, in a small coastal village in Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
, a site she used as a model for the setting for her latest novel, The Skating Pond (2003).