Mary Kay Zuravleff is an American short story writer and novelist.
She taught at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, the University of Maryland, and George Mason University.[1] She was writer in residence at American University. She won the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the James Jones First Novel Award. She is on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, D.C. [2]