Christopher Corbett

Christopher Corbett is the author of The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West (Atlantic Monthly, 2010) and Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express (Random House/Broadway Books, 2003). He is also the author of the novel Vacationland (Viking/Penguin, 1986).

Corbett is a 1973 graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A former news editor with The Associated Press, Corbett began his journalism career in his native Maine. Since 1995 he has written The Back Page for Baltimore's Style magazine, twice winner of best column from the City and Regional Magazine Association and honored by the Society for Professional Journalists for best editorial writing.

A Baltimore resident, Corbett is a faculty member at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where he is professor of the practice in the English Department. He was awarded the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Mentoring, 2007-2008. In 1990, Corbett was the James Thurber Journalist-In-Residence at Ohio State University. From 1990 to 1993, he was visiting journalist at Loyola College in Baltimore. His journalism has appeared in major American newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer.