Cori Winrock Joins English Department as Visiting Assistant Professor

Poet Cori Winrock has joined the SUNY Geneseo English department this year as Visiting Assistant Professor.

Winrock holds an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University (2007) and BA degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology from Oberlin College (2004). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a wide range of journals, including Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Blackbird, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, Pool, The American Poetry Journal, The National Poetry Review, and Crab Orchard Review.

Winrock has been a finalist for several noteworthy honors, including the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award and the National Poetry Review’s Annie Finch Prize.

In the fall 2011 semester, Winrock is teaching Engl 201 (Creative Writing), Engl 142 (Literary Forms: Portrait of the Artist – Autobiographical Comics, and Intd 105 (Writing Seminar: Literature and the Laboratory).