Grace Dane Mazur

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Grace Dane Mazur is an American writer born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 22, 1944. She started her career in science, earning a PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard in 1981 and researching how living things develop, including work on silkworms. In 1993 she switched to writing, earning a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Warren Wilson College. Mazur has worked as a fiction editor at the Harvard Review (1993–2004) and at Tupelo Press (2009–present). She has also taught creative writing at the Harvard Extension School and Warren Wilson College.

Mazur’s books include the novels The Garden Party (2018) and Trespass, the short-story collection Silk (1996), and Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination (2010). The Garden Party received attention from major outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is married to mathematician Barry Mazur, a Harvard professor.

Selected works:
- The Garden Party (novel, 2018)
- Trespass (novel, 1999)
- Silk (short stories, 1996)
- Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination (nonfiction, 2010)

Website: gracedanemazur.org