Jill McCorkle

Jill McCorkle is a professor in the MFA in Creative Writing department at NC State. She has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Tufts University, and Brandeis, where she was the Frannie Hurst Visiting Writer.  She is one of the original faculty members of the Bennington College MFA program, and is a frequent instructor at the Sewanee Summer Writers Program. 

She is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including CREATURES OF HABIT.  Her newest book, out in fall 2009, is GOING AWAY SHOES. 


Going Away Shoes (Hardcover)

By Jill McCorkle
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ISBN-13: 9781565126329
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 9/2009
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New fiction from NC State's Jill McCorkle.

Creatures of Habit (Paperback)

By Jill McCorkle
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ISBN-13: 9781565123977
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Published: Shannon Ravenel Books, 3/2003
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McCorkle takes us back to her longtime fictional home town, Fulton, North Carolina, to meet a broad range of characters that have much in common with the so-called lesser species. The voices with which McCorkle tells their stories crackle with wit, but also with a deeper-and more forgiving-wisdom than ever before.

The Cheer Leader (Paperback)

By Jill McCorkle
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ISBN-13: 9781565120013
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 6/2003
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Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The Cheerleader, Jo Spencer looks back, as if she were watching reruns of old syndicated TV shows, to figure out what happened.

Ordinary chance has dumped Sam Swett, age twenty-one, in the Marshboro, North Carolina, Quik Pik in the middle of a murder. Sam has shaved his head, given away all his belongings except his typewriter; he's drunker than he's ever been and running as fast as he can from his upper-middle-class upbringing. For the next twenty-four hours, Sam is propelled straight into the very core of this small Southern town as it sorts through the facts.