Cris Mazza is the author of 14 books, including novels, short fiction and a memoir. Her works include the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? and psychological novels of place, Girl Beside Him and Waterbaby. Many of Mazza's books take place in San Diego and the surrounding county, including Homeland, Trickle-Down Timeline, Indigenous: Growing up Californian, and her new novel Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, which looks at prostitute-slave trafficking in Southern California.

Mazza's first novel, How to Leave a Country,won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Some of her other titles include Your Name Here: ___; Dog People; and Indigenous / Growing Up Californian. A native of Southern California, Cris Mazza grew up in San Diego County. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from San Diego State University and an MFA in writing from Brooklyn College. She has taught at Mesa College, Miramar College, and UC San Diego and is now a professor in and director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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