Corinne Stanley holds a BS in English, an MSW in Community Organization, and an MA in Spanish Post-Vanguard South American Poetry. She has three poetry collections: They Say This Is Light, Breathe into the Knowing, and Down into the Upward Golden. Her poems appear in Quartet Journal, Comstock Review, Feminist Studies, The San Diego Annual, and House of Zolo. Stanley published a hybrid memoir, La tercera luz: A Poetic Journey Through Spain in 2022. Currently she is working on a second memoir, Daughter of Corn: Coming of Age in the Americas.

 

Stanley worked as a translator for the University of Iowa International Writing Workshop and translated and published Silencios del bosque/ Silence from the Forest by Spanish poet Esther Bendala Pavón. Stanley co-creates a bilingual poetry blog, www.bilingualborderless.com, with Mexican poet Marjha Paulino.

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She is a collage artist and her most recent art exhibition was at the Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa, during January to March 2025.

 

Before pursuing the arts as a second career, Stanley worked over 30 years as an English and Spanish educator, as well as a Staff Language and Culture Specialist at the University of Iowa. She lived in Mexico and Ecuador, and currently resides in Iowa City.