Cora Tate
Educated as a scientist and graduated as a mathematician, Cora Tate has made her living as a full-time professional entertainer most of her life, including a stint as a regular performer on the prestigious Grand Ole Opry. Cora’s repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city planner, among other occupations. Cora has written five novels, five novellas (two published), ten novelettes (three published plus one forthcoming), and about a hundred short stories, of which seventy-seven have been published in eighty-eight literary journals in eleven countries. Her short story “While The Iron Is Hot” won the Fair Australia Prize.