Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty
Gail MazurDistinguished Writer-in-Residence (1996) B.A., Smith College; M.A., Lesley College Gail Mazur is author of four books of poetry, Nightfire, The Pose of Happiness, The Common, and the 2001 collection, They Can't Take That Away from Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe. Her poems have been published in numerous magazines and journals, including the Atlantic, the Paris Review, the New Republic, Ploughshares, and on-line in Slate. Her work has been widely anthologized, including The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best American Poetry, New American Poets of the '90s, The Handbook of Heartbreak, and The New Norton Introduction to Literature. Mazur is on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has served as committee chair. She also teaches in the FAWC summer Workshop Program.
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