Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives which are often called postmodern. She is a recipient of a 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
Biography
Carole Maso was born in Paterson, New Jersey and received her B.A. in English from Vassar College 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 the 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 the 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: North Point Press, 1990, AVA. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, Defiance. New York: Dutton, 1998, Mother & Child. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 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
Barcelona Review interview with Maso, 2000
Essay from Break Every Rule
Vassar College alumni
Living people
Illinois State University faculty
George Washington University faculty
Columbia University faculty
Brown University faculty
American lesbian writers
American women novelists
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women short story writers
American LGBT novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
Novelists from Illinois
Novelists from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people)