Grace Dane Mazur

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Grace Dane Mazur
Born (1944-04-22) April 22, 1944 (age 80)
Boston, Massachusetts
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
PeriodEarly - 1990s until present
Genres Fiction, short story, non-fiction
Spouse Barry 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]

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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

Short-story collections

Nonfiction

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