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Corinne Manning (b. 1983, Neptune, NJ) believes in work that has a life behind the words: a beat, a breath and a will. She sees her own work as a collaboration with the reader: the reader gives the piece of work it’s breath and the writer’s job is to prepare the piece fully so the story can animate to its true self. Her fiction explores what’s often left unacknowledged and unquestioned in every day life, with a particular attention to the effects of gender and spirituality. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2005 and completed her MFA at UNC Wilmington in May. At UNCW she was a teaching assistant in the Publishing Laboratory where she designed books and broadsides. Before moving to Wilmington she co-founded the Other Means Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY; a monthly literary reading and fundraising event that supported a different non profit each month. She also teaches yoga.

Corinne gains a lot of nourishment and inspiration from learning and her newest endeavor is learning to play the saw without the help of you tube. Her biggest accomplishment on that front was figuring out that the feet are not involved in playing it. Another central piece of nourishment for Corinne is to be deeply involved with the community around her. She is looking forward to participating fully with HUB-BUB and the Spartanburg community.