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

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]

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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 Goreau, Angeline (November 17, 1996). "Forbidden Fruit". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  13. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 Reynolds, Susan Salter (June 2, 2002). "Discoveries". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  16. 1 2 "The Garden Party". penguinrandomhouse.com. Penguin Random House. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  17. 1 2 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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