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Mary Otis is author of the novel Burst, which was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and won the 2023 Silver Medal in Literary Fiction from the Independent Book Publisher Awards. Burst was featured on PBS NewsHour and named by Good Morning America, New York Post, and Orange County Register as a Best Book of 2023. Her stories, essays, and poems have been published in Best New American Voices, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Bennington Review, and in many literary journals and anthologies. The New York Times has said of her work, “Sadness and humor sidle up to each other, evocative of the delicate balance of melancholy and wit found in Lorrie Moore’s stories.” Her story "Unstruck" was a Distinguished Story of the Year in Best American Short Stories, and her story "Pilgrim Girl" received an Honorable Mention for the Pushcart Prize. She was a Walter Dakin Fellow and received a Getty Foundation Scholarship. Mary attended Bennington College and has taught fiction at UCLA and the UC Riverside Low-Residency MFA Program where she was a founding professor in the creative writing program.
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