Mary Rakow

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Mary Rakow is an American novelist.

Life

She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from University of California, Riverside, [1] in 1970, [2] from Harvard University with a master's degree in Theological Studies, and from Boston College with a Ph.D. in Theology, Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor Society. Her work has appeared in Works & Conversations. [3] She has appeared on Writers on Writing, with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett KUCI-FM. [4]

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Rakow is a member of PEN Center USA/West, where she has mentored in the PEN Rosenthal Emerging Voices Program. [5]

Rakow is a novelist and freelance editor living in San Francisco as an urban hermit in the ancient Catholic Christian tradition.

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