Name Andrew Mozina | Role Short story writer | |
Nominations Dana Award in Short Fiction Books Quality Snacks, The Women Were Lea, Joseph Conrad and the a | ||
Andrew Mozina (born July 7, 1963) is an American writer.
Biography
Mozina's books include the short story collections, The Women Were Leaving the Men (Wayne State University Press, 2007), and Quality Snacks (Wayne State University Press, 2014), and the novel Contrary Motion (Spiegel & Grau, 2016). The Women Were Leaving the Men was a finalist in the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction; the collection's title story received a special mention in the Pushcart Prize 2006 and was also listed as a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories collection of 2005.
Mozina is an associate professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, USA. He has published a critical work on Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad and the Art of Sacrifice (2001). He is a graduate of Pius XI High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, where he was President of the Associated Student Government as a member of the "Silly Party."
In 2014, Mozina performed in a video for Milwaukee power pop band The Mike Benign Compulsion, "Professional Jealousy/Saw Your Post."