Carole Maso is a contemporary American

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and

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, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives which are often called

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. She is a recipient of a 1993

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for Fiction.

Biography

Carole Maso was born in

Paterson, New Jersey Paterson ( ) is the largest City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. and received her A.B. in English from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

in 1977. She has lived in Greenwich Village, the South of France, Provincetown, and the Hudson Valley. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including the Rose Fellowship, a NEA fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, and th
Berlin Prize
She is the author of ten books and is known for her experimental, fragmentary, and poetic prose. Maso's first published novel was ''Ghost Dance'', which appeared in 1986. She is currently completing two novels: ''Why So Soon Asleep?'' and ''Eternity and the Dreamer''. Maso has been a professor at Columbia University in the School of the Arts and at th
Brown University Literary Arts Program
She is currently working, as she has been for the last 25 years, on a novel: ''The Bay of Angels.'' Parts of ''The Bay of Angels'' have appeared in journals and anthologies.

Publications

Novels

* ''Ghost Dance''. New York: Perennial Library, 1986, * ''The Art Lover''. San Francisco:

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, 1990, * ''AVA''. Normal, Illinois:

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, 1993, * ''The American Woman in the Chinese Hat''. Normal, Illinois:

, 1994, * ''Defiance''. New York: Dutton, 1998, * ''Mother & Child''. Berkeley, CA:

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, 2012,

Poems in prose

* ''Aureole: An Erotic Sequence'', Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco, 1996 (Short fiction collection), * ''Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo'', 2002,

Essays

* ''Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire''. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000,

Memoir

* ''The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth''. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002,

References

External links

*
WebDelSol's profile of Maso

Rain Taxi interview with Maso, 1997/98

Article about Defiance

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