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 | |
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| Born | April 22, 1944 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | Early - 1990s until present |
| Genres | Fiction, short story, non-fiction |
| Spouse | Barry Mazur |
| Website | |
| gracedanemazur | |
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)