Cris Mazza
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Cris Mazza (born 1956) is an American novelist, short story and non-fiction writer. She has published nine novels, four collections of short stories, and a collection of essays. She is widely anthologized as an example of post-feminist, formalist or contemporary experimental fiction. Her work often deals with second and third-wave feminist concerns as well as frank sexuality.
Along with Jeffrey DeShell, she coined the term "chick lit" for the edited anthology Chick Lit Postfeminist Fiction (1995) and the follow up anthology Chick Lit 2: No Chick Vics (1996) [1]. While originally meant to be ironic, the term was co-opted to define a very different sort of work.
Mazza directs the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago[1].
She won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for her novel "How to Leave a Country."[2]
[edit] Works
- How to Leave a Country: a novel (1992)
- Dog People: a novel (1997)
- Homeland (Red Hen Press, 2004)
- Disability (FC2, 2005)
- Many Ways to Get It, Many Ways to Say It (Chiasmus Press, 2005)
- Waterbaby (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Website
- Works by or about Cris Mazza in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
