Cris Mazza

Cris Mazza

CRIS MAZZA is the author of three previous memoirs, eleven novels, and six collections of short fiction. Mazza’s first novel, How to Leave a Country, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Her second published book was the critically acclaimed collection of fictions, Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? She is a native of Southern California and has recently retired from a thirty-one-year tenure as a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mazza now resides in the upper Midwest’s Northwoods.