Grace Dane Mazur

Grace Dane Mazur (born 1944) is an American writer.[1] Her works include the novels Trespass (1998) and The Garden Party (2018), the short story collection Silk (1996), and Hinges (2010), a book that combines "personal essay, literary criticism, art history, and memoir."[2]

Grace Dane Mazur
Born (1944-04-22) April 22, 1944
Boston, Massachusetts
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
PeriodEarly - 1990s until present
GenresFiction, short story, non-fiction
SpouseBarry Mazur
Website
gracedanemazur.org

Biography

Initially pursuing a career in the biological sciences, Mazur earned a PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University in 1981,[1][3] after which she spent a number of years researching morphogenesis and micro-architecture in silkworms at Harvard's Biological Laboratories.[4][5][6] In 1993, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Warren Wilson College.[1][7][8] Mazur worked as fiction editor at the Harvard Review from 1993 to 2004,[8][9] and has worked as fiction editor at Tupelo Press from 2009 to the present.[8][10] She has taught creative writing at the Harvard Extension School and the Master of Fine Arts program at Warren Wilson College.[5][11] Her works have been reviewed in The New York Times,[12][13] The Washington Post,[14] the Los Angeles Times,[15] and People,[16] as well as on Vox.[17] She is married to mathematician Barry Mazur, the Gerhard Gade University Professor and senior fellow at Harvard University.[18]

Selected works

Novels
  • The Garden Party, Random House 2018 (ISBN 9780399179723) [13][14][16][17]
  • Trespass: A Novel, Nocturnum Press 1999 (ISBN 9781555973643) [15]

Short-story collections
  • Silk, Brookline Books 1996. (ISBN 9781571290281) [12]

Nonfiction
  • Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination, CRC Press 2010. (ISBN 9781568817156)

References
  1. Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers (19 ed.). London and New York: Europa Publications Limited. p. 379. ISBN 1857431790. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. Mazur, Grace Dane (8 November 2010). Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination, 1st Edition. ISBN 978-1568817156.
  3. "Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences". gsas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  4. "Author Details - Mazur, Grace Dane". scopus.com. Scopus. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  5. "Grace Dane Mazur". penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  6. "Grace Dane Mazur Bio". gracedanemazur.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  7. Mazur, Grace Dane. "I Worked in Biology for 17 Years… Then I Became a Writer". lithub.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  8. "No Lay-Offs Here!". awpwriter.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  9. Rosefield, Hannah. "The Garden Party". harvardreview.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  10. "Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, A Literary & Entertainment Agency" (PDF). antherights.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  11. "The MFA Program at Warren Wilson College, Faculty Past & Present". wwcmfa.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  12. Goreau, Angeline (November 17, 1996). "Forbidden Fruit". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  13. Shipstead, Maggie (August 31, 2018). "'The Garden Party' Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  14. Rioux, Anne Boyd (July 12, 2018). "Marriage can't quite bring two families together in 'The Garden Party'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  15. Reynolds, Susan Salter (June 2, 2002). "Discoveries". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  16. "The Garden Party". penguinrandomhouse.com. Penguin Random House. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  17. Grady, Constance. "In The Garden Party, family discord gets a beautifully retro, modernist treatment". vox.com. vox.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  18. "Barry Mazur". math.harvard.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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