Gail Mazur

Poet

Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts US

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Faber & Faber, 2015)
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Essential Pleasures (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015)
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Handbook of Heartbreak (William Morrow, 2015)
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Poems to Read (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015)
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Poetry Daily Essentials (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2015)
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Pushcart Prize Anthologies (Pushcart Press, 2015)
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Ladies, Start Your Engines (Faber & Faber, 2007)
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Best Jewish Writing (Jossey-Bass, 2002)
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Best American Poetry (Simon & Schuster, 1994)
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Best American Poetry (best american poetry, 1994)
Books:
Forbidden City (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Figures in a Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
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Zeppo's First Wife: New & Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
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They Can't Take That Away From Me (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
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The Common (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
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The Pose of Happiness (David R. Godine, 1986)
Journals:
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Atlantic Monthly
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Boulevard
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New Republic
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Paris Review
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Partisan Review
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Slate
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The Hudson Review
Prizes won: 

Massachusetts Book Award 200g; National Endowment for the Arts Award; St. Botolph Prize; National Book Award finalist; Bunting Institute Fellowship; Radcliffe Institute Fellowship; Pushcart Prizes

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Children, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
French
Born in: 
Cambridge
Raised in: 
Auburndale, MA
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Last update: May 25, 2016