Mairs has taught writing and literature at Salpointe Catholic High School, the University of Arizona, and the University of California at Los Angeles.Ī poet and an essayist, she was awarded the 1984 Western States Book Award in poetry for In All the Rooms of the Yellow House (Confluence Press, 1984) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1991. in English literature (with a minor in English education) in 1984 from the University of Arizona. in creative writing (poetry) in 1975 and the Ph.D. She did editorial work at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard Law School before moving to Tucson, Arizona, where she earned the M.F.A. Mairs writes personal essays explicitly from an aging, disabled, feminist, spiritually radical viewpoint outside the mainstream, “marginalized,” to use a term that emerged during the 1970s.īorn in Long Beach, Calif., Mairs grew up north of Boston and received her A.B. Our lives are stories that we tell about ourselves, and so even the most trivial action is a form of self-expression. All writing – indeed, all work – comes out of the self.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |