Carole Maso is a writer of fiction, essays, poetry and memoir. Her books include Ghost Dance (1987), The Art Lover (1990), AVA (1993), The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994), Aureole: Short Fictions (1996), Defiance (1997), Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire (2000), A Room Lit By Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth (2000), Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frieda Kahlo (20020), and Aureole (poems in prose) (2002).

Carole Maso's most recent work, The Bay of Angels , is a war-inflected novel, a book of ruins, dealing with the history of human suffering and the extraordinary and terrible beauty and sorrow of the world I find myself in. Like the desiring and restless soul, the form embraces fiction, essay, memoir, poetry, photographs, drawings and other ephemera. The book comes directly from my explorations in my nine previous literary works.

Cultural Arts Project Support (CAPS) Grant for Fiction, 1983
W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, 1985

New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1987

National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant, 1987

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, 1988

Cultural Arts Project Support (CAPS) Grant for Fiction, 1983

W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, 1985

New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1987

National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant, 1987

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, 1988

Pushcart Prize, 1993

Lana Literary Fellowship for Fiction, 1993

PEN American Center

Distinguished Writer in Residence, Illinois State University, 1991-92

Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence, George Washington University, 1992-93, 2 classes per semester, enrollment approximately 15 students

Associate Professor of Writing, School of the Arts, Columbia University 1993-95
Graduate Fiction Workshops, 2 each semester, 15 students
Independent Studies- 3 per semester
Graduate Theses- 8

Visiting Writer in Residence, Brown University, Creative Writing Program, 1994

Graduate Fiction Workshop-1, Advanced Fiction Workshop-1 Bennington MFA Associate Faculty, Bennington Summer Writing Workshop, 1994 & 1995

Faculty, Columbia University Summer Program, 1994

Director of the Creative Writing Program and Associate Professor of English, Brown University, 1995-1998


Summer Faculty, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center 1996