[3] Corcoran earned a degree in computer science and history from Cornell University in 1993 and has worked professionally as a software engineer.

[12] Corcoran is a smallholder farmer[3][13] and author of Escape the City, a homesteading manual targeted towards city-dwellers desiring to move to the country.

[14][15] Corcoran stated in response to CitizensCount's 2022 candidate survey that he believed "current NH abortion laws make a decent trade off between conflicting interests."

[16] Corcoran has stated that he supports a ban on teaching certain concepts relating to race, such as the idea that people may be inherently "racist, sexist, or oppressive".

Corcoran voted in favour of a bill prohibiting students of male biology from playing on female middle and high school sports teams.

Corcoran wrote in his 2024 CitizensCount Issue Survey response, "Minimum wages make it illegal to hire low-skill workers, who benefit most from gaining experience.

[16] Corcoran voted against a bill requiring landlords to give tenants a notice period ranging from 30 days to six months before rent increases.

[19] In 2020, Corcoran experienced harassment and threats on Twitter from Lyndon McLeod, perpetrator of the 2021 Denver and Lakewood shootings.

[20] Corcoran was criticized in NH Journal in 2023 after he encouraged people to use racial epithets as a matter of principle under his official Morlock Publishing Twitter account.