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Gail Mazur

Books:

Forbidden City, University of Chicago Press, 2016
Figures in a Landscape, University of Chicago Press, 2011
Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems, Univ. Chicago, 2005
(Massachusetts Book Award. 2006; finalist Los Angeles Times Book      Prize, 2005
They Can’t Take That Away from Me, University of Chicago, 2001, Finalist National Book Award 2001
The Common, University of Chicago Press, 1995
The Pose of Happiness, David Godine, Publisher, 1986
Nightfire, David Godine Publisher, 1978

Gail Mazur’s 6^th collection, Figures in a Landscape, was published by University of Chicago in 2011. Her 5^th collection of poems, Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems, (Chicago, 2005) is winner of the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award and a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is author of 4 earlier books of poetry, Nightfire, The Pose of Happiness, The Common, and They Can’t Take That Away from Me (University of Chicago Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001..

Mazur’s poems have been widely published, including in The Atlantic, The Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, and on-line in Slate, Poem-a-Day and Memorious. Her poems have been widely anthologized, including in two Pushcart Prize Anthologies.

She has given readings and lectures and workshops and taught at universities, libraries, and conferences around the country, including the Graduate Programs at University of Houston and University of California at Irvine. She has been Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College from 1995 to 2016 and is Founding Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, a weekly poetry reading series she ran for 29 years. Mazur is on the editorial boards of Ploughshares and Agni. She serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and serves on its Advisory Board.

Mazur was a fellow in poetry at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2008-2009, and was a 1996-97 poetry fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a winner of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the 2005 recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation’s Distinguished Artist Award.

Interviews with Mazur about her work are online at The Atlantic and in the 2008 Provincetown Arts.