Corrinne Bollendorf

Corrinne Bollendorf (she/her) is a writer based in northern Nevada and serves as fiction editor for the Sierra Nevada Review. She is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s low-residency MFA, where she was a recipient of the Two Pines Award for Outstanding Creative Work. Her most recent work appears in The Los Angeles Press and Oranges Journal. She is a southern California native and studied communications at California State University, Fullerton. Currently, she is working on her full-length manuscript, Delicate Animals, a multi-narrative novel inspired by a generational curse based on the real life murder-suicide of her Great Aunt Margaret on Mt. Kīlauea, Hawaii, in 1932. She writes about the intersection of identity and violence, and is interested in the mosaic patterns of survival passed down from familial oral history and genetics. Her work aims to name cycles of violence, examine the nuances between coping and destruction, and to explore the complicated nature of existence inside hereditary prophecies. You can find her on Instagram @corrinneypoo.