Connie Corzilius
About Connie Corzilius
Connie Corzilius is curious about many things, but devoted to only a few: writing, dogs, reading, dogs, books, dogs.
Also dogs.
A Pushcart and Million Writers nominee, her fiction (and a smattering of poetry) has been published in many literary magazines, including Another Chicago Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, Tusculum Review, CALYX, Jewish Fiction Journal, Mississippi Review, Tulip Tree Review, Bodega Magazine, Twelve Winters, Stonecoast Review, small spiral notebook, Storyglossia, Willow Review, and Big Muddy, among others. She also has a strange little story forthcoming in Mystery Tribune.
In the previous century, she earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, but she tries not to think about that too much. Over the years, she has worked as a bookseller, a staff writer, a copywriter, a medical editor, and a grant writer. If it's poorly remunerated and involves words, she’s on it.
Born and raised in Granite City, Illinois, a steel town across the Mississippi from Saint Louis, she has lived for the past 20 years in Augusta, Georgia with her husband, Mark Spasser, their two daughters, now grown, and a procession of neurotic-but-fabulous dogs, currently a droll pitbull named Mel Nippleman. Her experiences as a Midwesterner transplanted to the Deep South often inform her work, as do themes of toxic religion, reclaimed power, and revenge.
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She's currently working on a novel.
Publications
“Girlie” is forthcoming in Mystery Tribune.
“The Life You Lived Your Own Self” appeared in Tusculum Review, vol. 21, 2025.
“Last Rooms” appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 28, Spring 2025.
“Fat Nap” appeared in Bodega Magazine, Issue 139 August 2024.
“An Out” appeared in Jewish Fiction Journal, Issue 37, 2024.
“Monkey Balls” appeared in Wild Women Story Contest, Tulip Tree Publishing, Spring/Summer Issue 2024.
"We Are, All of Us, Old Dogs Here" appeared in Stonecoast Review.
“Little Woman” appeared in Twelve Winters, Vol II, 2022.
"The Manse" appeared in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley.
“Slut Wisdom” appeared in Mississippi Review Online, Vol 8, No. 3, Summer 2002.
"The Interminable Yes" appeared in Storyglossia.
“Shut-Ins” appeared in Storyglossia.
“Mary Beth” appeared in small spiral notebook.
“Prelapsarian Studies” appeared in Lost Magazine, Sept. 2006, No. 8.
“Saved” (poem) appeared in CALYX, Vol 14 (1), Summer 1992.
“The New World” (poem) appeared in Willow Review.
