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 A.B. 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