Corinne Goria is a writer and the editor of Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (McSweeney’s Voice of Witness 2014), selected as part of The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2015, reviewed in The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Kirkus Reviews, and Truthout, and currently taught at colleges and universities across the country. 

She is the author of www.FromthenonFire.com, a digital experiment in fiction and the subject of the 2012 Associated Writers’ and Publishers’ (AWP) Conference lecture “Emerging Digital Genres: A Relational Investigation” and studies at Enssib in Lyon, France.  It is enshrined in the Electronic Literature Dictionary.,  She contributed to Poetry International: Poets without Borders, and her fiction has been featured in The Silent History, The Far East Project, The San Diego Writer’s Anthology, the 2011 &Now Festival.

She is the Assistant Editor of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney's 2008), a collection of oral histories from undocumented immigrants in the United States that was featured in The Guardian, on NPR, and in other news outlets. She also served as the San Diego Field Reporter for The Silent History, a site-specific novel written and designed for digital interaction and featured in The New York Times, WIRED, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times.

Ms. Goria received her Juris Doctorate from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, her MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from San Francisco State University, and her BA from U.C. Berkeley.

She teaches in the Political Science Department at the University of San Diego, and is a  Creative Writing Lecturer at San Diego State University,  where she developed the Quarantine Collaboration Project. She is pleased to have engaged her students in research that was used in pro bono asylum cases in San Diego and other parts of the U.S.

Ms. Goria has practiced immigration law since 2006, specializing in business, asylum and family matters. She has successfully helped families, refugees, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs and artists from countries all over the world. She was born and raised in San Diego and has lived in Italy, South Africa and Mexico. She speaks English, Spanish and Italian and lives in San Diego, California with her spouse and two sons.