Author, Poet, Bookstore Owner
Corey have published prose and/or poetry in Yellow Silk, Pindeldyboz, Mars Hill Review, Pikeville Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Rattle, Orchid, Quick Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Green Egg, Poetry Motel, Raintown Review, Potomac Review, Poetry Super Highway, Big Muddy Slant, Wilmington Blues, Drought, Parnassus Literary Review, Wavelength, Liliput Review, Pearl, Aurorean, Lucid Moon, Heeltep, Sunny Outside, Fish Drum, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Mid-American Poetry Review, Independence Boulevard, Midday Moon, Turnrow, Now Here Nowhere, Dust, Cherotic Revolutionary, Cotyledon, Buckle and Iodine, Snakeskin (England), Flashpoint, Minas Tirith Evening Star, Drexel Online, Freewheelin’ (England), Pitchfork, Anthology, Poet Lore, Spillway, The Pegasus Review, Reverb, Kimera, Thema, Kunquat Meringue, Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Both Sides Now, Blue Unicorn, Black Dirt, The Spirit That Moves Us, Red Rock Review, Art Times, Concrete Wolf, Memphis Magazine, Rhino, Visions International and others. He has a chapbook of poems, Piecework, from the Wing and the Wheel Press. Corey has worked in the anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball ( Breakaway Books/Lyons and Burford), Monsters from Memphis (Zapizdat Press), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide (Pudding Press), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press) and Smashing Icons (Curious Rooms). One of his short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of the New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, is just out from Livingston Press. Advance raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. Corey has been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal Book Page, The Memphis Flyer, Brightleaf) fiction editor (for Ion Books/Raccoon), university press sales rep, grant committee judge (for the Oregon Arts Council), father and son. With his wife, he owns Burke’s Book Store, one USA’s oldest (127 years) and best independent bookstores.