Carole Maso

Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives which are often called postmodern.[1][2][3] She is a recipient of a 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.[4]

Biography

Maso was born in Paterson, New Jersey[5] in 1955, the child of her jazz musician father and her emergency department nurse mother.[5]

She received a B.A. in English from Vassar College in 1977.[6] Maso initially wanted to be a journalist when she entered Vassar, but she later decided to focus on creative writing instead. She began working on her novel Ghost Dance while she was still a student.[6] During her senior year at Vassar, she submitted about 50 pages of prose poems as her senior honors thesis. It is at this point that she knew she wanted to be a writer.[7] Maso eschewed the traditional path to teaching and never studied formally beyond her Vassar B.A., despite having been offered a graduate fellowship at Boston University. Rather, she devoted 9 years to learning the craft by doing, writing while alternately working as a waitress, artist's model, and fencing instructor. She also did some house- and cat-sitting, which afforded her time to write. Maso has referred to this period as her "apprenticeship years."[7]

Maso is the recipient of a 1988 NEA fellowship,[8] a 1993 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction,[4] and several other grants. Her first published novel was Ghost Dance, which appeared in 1986. Her best-known novel is probably Defiance, published in 1998.[9] She is a professor of literary arts at Brown University, where she has taught since 1995,[10][9] and she previously held positions as a writer-in-residence at Illinois State University from 1991 to 1992[11][12] and George Washington University from 1992 to 1993.[12][11] She also taught writing at Columbia University in 1993.[12][11] A forthcoming novel, The Bay of Angels, incorporates various narrative types—essay, memoir, prose poems, and even graphics—and represents more than 20 years of work.[13][14] Parts of The Bay of Angels have appeared in journals and anthologies.[15][16] Maso won a spring 2018 Berlin Prize fellowship, during which she continued to work on The Bay of Angels.[17]

Publications

Novels
  • Ghost Dance. New York: Perennial Library, 1986, ISBN 0-88001-409-1
  • The Art Lover. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8112-1629-2
  • AVA. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993, ISBN 1-56478-074-0
  • The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, ISBN 1-56478-045-7
  • Defiance. New York: Dutton, 1998, ISBN 0-452-27829-5
  • Mother & Child. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-58243-818-4

Short stories
  • Contributor, Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, edited by E. J. Levy. New York: Avon Books, 1995.
  • Aureole: An Erotic Sequence, Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco, 1996 (Short fiction collection), ISBN 0872864103

Other
  • Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000, ISBN 1-58243-063-2
  • The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002, ISBN 1-58243-212-0
  • Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo, 2002, ISBN 1-58243-089-6
  • Contributor, Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse, edited by Sven Birkerts. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1996.

References
  1. "Carole Maso - AVA". www.carolemaso.com. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  2. Kurup, Seema (2004). A book of her own : postmodern practices in contemporary American women's experimental literature (PhD). Kent State University. OCLC 61264704.
  3. Baer, Andrea Patricia (2008). The moods of postmodern metafiction: narrative and affective literary spaces and reader (dis)engagement (PhD). University of Washington. OCLC 262480725.
  4. "Carole Maso: 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  5. Shengold, Nina. "Carole Maso's Dark Radiance". Chronogram Magazine. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  6. "Interview with novelist Carole Maso '77". Vassar Quarterly. LXXXIII: 32. 1987-03-01.
  7. Harris, Victoria Frenkel (1997). "Carole Maso: An Introduction and an Interpellated Interview". The Review of Contemporary Fiction. 17: 105–111.
  8. NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts. 2006.
  9. "Bard American Studies Program Events: A Reading by Carole Maso". americanstudies.bard.edu. 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  10. "Carole Maso". American Academy. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  11. "Reading by Author Carole Maso | Illinois Wesleyan". www.iwu.edu. 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  12. "Creative Writing Reading: Carole Maso // Events // Department of English // University of Notre Dame". english.nd.edu. 2012. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  13. "The Bay of Angels". American Academy. 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  14. "Carole Maso | Literary Arts Program". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  15. "Notes on Contributors". Conjunctions. 60: 379–382. 2013 – via https://www.jstor.org/stable/24517310.
  16. "Carole Maso: excerpt from "The Bay of Angels," a novel-in-progress – Tarpaulin Sky Magazine". Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  17. "Carole Maso". American Academy. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
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