Corie Rosen is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Award, for the Pushcart Prize, and has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction.
She grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and attended UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, she studied with MacArthur Genius and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ishmael Reed, who told her she was among the very best young writers he had ever encountered.