Cris Mazza Mailing Address: Department of English M/C 162 U. of Illinois at Chicago 601 S. Morgan Chicago, IL  60607 County: Cook E-mail: cmazza@uic.edu Phone: work: 312-413-2200 fax: 312-413-1005 Genre: Fiction/Non-Fiction

Periodical Publications:

• "Is it Sexual Harassment Yet?" Extreme Fiction (Longman Publishing/Penguin), 2004 (anthology)
  
• "In Six Short Lessons" The Italian America Reader (William Morrow), 2003, (anthology)
  
• "Displaced" (nonfiction) In the Middle of the Midwest (Indiana Univ.), 2003, (anthology)
  
• "Caught" Bottom of the Ninth (Southern Ill Univ. Press), 2003, (anthology)
  
• "Homeland," Crab Orchard Review, winter 2003 (novel excerpt)
• "Cookie," Serpent's Tail Press anthology, spring 2003
• "Go To Ground," Denver Quarterly, fall 2002 (novel excerpt)
• "Diamonds and a Girl's Best Friends," North American Review, fall 2002 (CNF)
• "Our Father," The Milk of Almonds (anthology) Feminist Press, fall 2002
• "Ring of Fire" Fiction International, 2002
  
• "Therapeutic" Water~Stone, 2002
• "Familiar Noise," TriQuarterly, summer 2002, (novel excerpt)
• "His Helpmate," RetroRetro (anthology) Serpent's Tail , 2000 (short fiction)
• "Exhibition," Neonlit (anthology) Quartet Books (TimeOut Litd), 2000 (short fiction)
• "Girl Beside Him," Fiction International, fall 2000 (novel excerpt)
• "Dislodged," Sycamore Review, 2001 (creative nonfiction)
• "Land of Make Believe" San Diego Reader, 2000 (creative nonfiction)
• Fiction also has been published in Other Voices (Spring 1998), Fiction International (1998), New American Writing (Fall 1997), American Writing (Fall 1997), Crab Orchard Review (1996),  Western Humanities Review (1996), and many others

Book Publications:

• Homeland (novel), Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2004
  
• Indigenous/Growing Up Californian (personal essays) City Lights Books, 2003
• Girl Beside Him (novel), FC2, 2001
• Dog People (novel), Coffee House Press, 1997
• Former Virgin (stories), FC2, 1997
• Chick-Lit 2 (fiction anthology), editor, with Jeffrey DeShell & Elisabeth Sheffield, FC2, 1996
• Your Name Here: ______ (novel), Coffee House Press, 1995
• Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (fiction anthology), editor, with Jeffrey DeShell, FC2, 1995
• Has also published other collections and novels with Coffee House Press & FC2, 1988 - 1994
• FC2 plans a second edition of Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, 1998

Forthcoming Publications:

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Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• NEA fellowship, 2000
• Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, 1997
• Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, 1996
• PEN/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction in manuscript, 1984 (later published as How to Leave a Country)

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Visits to colleges and universities, 2004: Virginia State University, University of Central Michigan, Georgia State University
• Book tour in California: San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, 2003
• Visits to colleges and universities, 2003: Bowling Green State University, University of Miami (Ohio)
• Berlin, Literaturhaus, 2003
  
• December 10, 2001, Wheeling Public Library, Wheeling, IL
• November 1, 2001, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
• October 19, 2001, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• September 11, 2001, Kalamazoo Public Library, MI
• Peoria Public Library, April 2001
• Turrow (Literary organization), Milwaukee, April, 2001
• Center for the Writing Arts, Northwestern University, April
• Loyola University, March 2001
• Chicago Arts Club, 22 October 1997
• Allegheny College (Meadville, PA), 15 October 1997
• Southern Illinois U., 8 October 1997
• U. of Michigan, 2 October 1997
• Writers-at-Work Writing Conference, July 1997

Recent Workshops:

• Extension weekend workshop, UC Santa Cruz, May 17-18, 2003
• Workshop for River Oak Arts, summer 2001
• 1-day "master class" for Guild Complex Women's Writers Conference, fall, 2000
• My job at UIC: graduate novel-writing workshops
• "Generating Fiction" (one-week workshop), U. of Wyoming, May 1998
• Novel writing instructor, Writers-at-Work Writing Conference, July 1997

Present Employment:

• Professor, Program for Writers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Preferred Audience:

• Adult audience

Willing to travel:

• U.S. only