Illinois Authors

Fiction Collective, New York : ©1988.

"Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as "disturbing" for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction by a writer due for discovery by millennial readers unsatisfied by mainstream feminism."--provided by publisher.

FC2, Tallahassee, FL : ©2005.

Coffee House Press, Minneapolis : ©1997.

The romances of dog lovers. Fanny is an interior decorator, Scott is a caterer, and both are unhappily married. They meet in a park while exercising their dogs and have an affair. Subsequently, Fanny meets a lesbian who wants to breed a dog and another affair follows.

Coffee House Press ; Minneapolis : 1994.

Photographer Conni Zamora is hired to take publicity photos for a theatre in San Diego. As she goes about her assignment, differences emerge between her point of view as a photographer and that of the cast. A study in perception. By the author of How to Leave a Country.

FC2, Normal, IL : 1997.

In her latest collection of stories, critically acclaimed writer Cris Mazza shines a kleig light on the dark underside of relationships in a disturbing look at the ambiguous nature of our own desires.

FC2, Normal [Ill.] : ©2001.

"Girl Beside Him is a novel about love, instinct, and the havoc kindled by nature gone awry. A wildlife biologist, observing a group of relocated cougars, attempts to repress the desires that he fears may make him a sex killer. In his struggle to understand himself, he finds an answer, but not without putting another at risk. A cougar escapes human confinement; a woman is freed of her dangerous obsession, and a man is freed of his deepest dread, though freedom comes with a price. Transgressive and addictive, Mazza once again probes the limits of human relationships, taking her readers into a region of dark sexuality, torn between love and destruction."--Jacket.

Red Hen Press, Los Angeles : ©2004.

Coffee House Press, Minneapolis : 1992.

City Lights, San Francisco : ©2003.

Fiction Collective Two, Normal, IL : 1998.

Chiasmus Press, Portland : 2005.

Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA : 2009.

Emergency Press, New York : ©2011.

Soft Skull Press ; Brooklyn, NY : 2007.

As children, Tam and her older brother were swimming when she suffered her first epileptic seizure. He pulled her from the water and was crowned a hero. Tam was labeled "disabled" and never swam again. And so began 30 years of vigilance, never allowing her body to betray her, never allowing her brother or her family or anyone else to influence her path. Now, in middle age, a lifetime's worth of control has taken its toll. Exhausted, she heads to Maine.

Coffee House Press ; Minneapolis : ©1995.

An affair with a married man enables a woman to finally come to terms with a rape she underwent 10 years earlier. Until then, Erin Haley had been unable to remember the incident, involving a colleague in a radio station where she worked as a journalist.