Steven Corbin (October 3, 1953 – August 31, 1995) was an American writer.Mark Sarvas, "Mentors: Steven Corbin". Los Angeles Review of Books, January 7, 2012. He was known for his novel Fragments That Remain, a Lambda Literary Award nominee for Gay Fiction at the 1994 6th Lambda Literary Awards."Steven Corbin; Novelist and AIDS Activist". Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1995.
Born in Jersey City,Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. . pp. 108-114. he studied at Essex County College for two years before switching to the University of Southern California to study film. He dropped out of the program, and began to write while working as a secretary and taxi driver. He published his debut novel, No Easy Place to Be, in 1989. He published Fragments That Remain in 1993, A Hundred Days from Now in 1994, and several short stories.
He died on August 31, 1995, of AIDS complications, in New York City. He taught creative writing at the University of California.
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