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Cris Mazza (born 1956) is an American novelist, short story and non-fiction writer.




Contents





  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Works


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links




Biography


A native of Southern California, Mazza earned her BA and MA at San Diego State University and her MFA in writing at Brooklyn College. She has published 10 novels, 6 collections, 2 memoirs.[1] 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, Mazza 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).[2] While originally meant to be ironic, the term was co-opted to define a very different sort of work. In 2007, Gretchen Kalwinsky of Time Out Chicago called Mazza "an award-winning author who has waged a one-woman war against the chick-lit genre".[3]


During an interview with Rain Taxi, Mazza termed her 2013 memoir, Something Wrong With Her a ‘meta-memoir.’ The memoir explores sexual dysfunction. [4]


Mazza directs the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[5] She won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for her novel How to Leave a Country.[6]


In addition, Mazza received an &NOW award in 2009 for her story “Trickle-Down Timeline,” published in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing in 2009. She has also participated in the biennial &NOW festival.


In 2016, Mazzo coproduced and starred in the independent film, Anorgasmia. Based on her memoir, Something Wrong With Her, the film continues the struggles of sexual frustration felt by Mazzo. Despite acting as a fictional sequel to the memoir, the film continues with the memoir's themes, exploring the conflicts and anxieties of sexual frustration.[7]



Works


Published Writing:



  • Animal Acts (FC2, 1988)


  • Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? (FC2, 1991)


  • How to Leave a Country: a novel (1992)


  • Revelation Countdown (FC2, 1993)


  • Dog People: a novel (1997)


  • Former Virgin (FC2, 1997)


  • Girl Beside Him (FC2, 2001)


  • Indigenous: Growing up Californian (City Lights, 2003)


  • 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)


  • Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls (Emergency Press, 2011)


  • Something Wrong With Her (memoir, 2013)

Film:



  • Anorgasmia (independent film, 2016)


References




  1. ^ http://cris-mazza.com/


  2. ^ "What is chick-lit? - Electronic Book Review". www.electronicbookreview.com..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ Kalwinsky, Gretchen (March 15–21, 2007). "Chicks and Balances" (PDF). Time Out Chicago. Retrieved April 6, 2016.


  4. ^ Farkas, Andrew. http://www.raintaxi.com/an-invisible-interview-with-cris-mazza/ "An Invisible Interview with Cris Mazza." Rain Taxi. Spring 2014.


  5. ^ "UIC Department of English Homepage". www.uic.edu.


  6. ^ "Soft Skull: Waterbaby by Cris Mazza". Archived from the original on November 9, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2017.


  7. ^ http://cris-mazza.com/projects/




External links


  • Website


  • Works by or about Cris Mazza in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

  • an interview with Cris Mazza (FC2)

  • An Invisible Interview with Cris Mazza







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