Mary Rakow is an American novelist.
Life She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from University of California, Riverside, in 1970, from Harvard University with a master's degree in Theological Studies, and from Boston College with a Ph.D. in Theology, Alpha Sigma Nu 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 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing shortlist 2010 Whale and Star residency in the studio of Enrique Martínez Celaya
Works
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
Theology "Christ's Descent into Hell: Calvin's Interpretation", Religion in Life, 43, (Summer 1974)
References
External links Mary Rakow's website "Three Questions for Mary Rakow", The Los Angeles Times, Susan Salter Reynolds, June 30, 2002 Jane Fitch's Book List This is Why I Came website