Grace Dane Mazur
Grace Dane Mazur (born 1944) is an American writer. 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." Biography. Initially pursuing a career in the biological sciences, Mazur earned a PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University in 1981, after which she spent a number of years researching morphogenesis and micro-architecture in silkworms at Harvard's Biological Laboratories. In 1993, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from  Warren Wilson College. Mazur worked as fiction editor at the "Harvard Review" from 1993 to 2004, and has worked as fiction editor at Tupelo Press from 2009 to the present. She has taught creative writing at the Harvard Extension School and the Master of Fine Arts program at Warren Wilson College. Her works have been reviewed in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", the "Los Angeles Times", and "People", as well as on "Vox". She is married to mathematician Barry Mazur, the Gerhard Gade University Professor and senior fellow at Harvard University.