Mary Rakow is an American novelist.
Life
She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...
, in 1970, from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
with a master's degree in Theological Studies, and from
Boston College
Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
with a Ph.D. in Theology,
Alpha Sigma Nu
Alpha Sigma Nu () is the honor society of Jesuit colleges and universities. ΑΣΝ is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. Founded in 1915 at Marquette University as Alpha Sigma Tau, it adopted the current name in 1930. The ...
Jesuit Honor Society. Her work has appeared in ''Works & Conversations''.
She has appeared on ''Writers on Writing'', with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett KUCI-FM.
Rakow is a member of PEN Center USA/West, where she has mentored in the PEN Rosenthal Emerging Voices Program.
Rakow is a novelist and freelance editor living in San Francisco as an urban hermit in the ancient Catholic Christian tradition.
Awards
* 2002 10 Best Books in the West, L.A. Times, 2002
* 2003
Lannan Literary Fellowship
The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...
* 2003
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing shortlist
* 2010 Whale and Star residency in the studio of Enrique Martínez Celaya
Works
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* Matthew Biro, Leo A. Harrington, Mary Rakow (2012). Martinez Celaya, Working Methods. Ediciones Poligrafa. .
* Mary Rakow. (15 Dec 2015). This Is Why I Came, a novel. Counterpoint Press. .
Anthology
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Theology
* "Christ's Descent into Hell: Calvin's Interpretation", ''Religion in Life'', 43, (Summer 1974)
References
External links
Mary Rakow's website
* ttp://americareads.blogspot.com/2006/09/janet-fitchs-book-list.html Jane Fitch's Book Listbr>''This is Why I Came'' website
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Harvard Divinity School alumni
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
University of California, Riverside alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people