Corin Cummings (b. 1971) grew up in Vermont. In 1989 he was part of a performing group that toured parts of the USSR and was among the first American students to stay with Soviet host families. He was in Russia when the Berlin wall came down. He returned to Russia in 1994 and lived in Tomsk, Siberia, where he worked at one of the country’s first independent TV stations. Cummings graduated from Marlboro College and the School for International Training in 1995. He wrote an honors thesis entitled “Shades of Journalism: An apprenticeship in Literary Journalism.” He interned and worked briefly at the Columbia Journalism Review in New York City. He worked as a freelance journalist and published in a number of newspapers and small magazines.
Cummings took a job at a small Internet agency in Portland, OR, in 1997. That agency moved him to Toronto in 1999. He moved to Montreal in 2011 and continues to work in e-commerce. Cummings lives in NDG with his wife and two sons.
