Mary Kay Zuravleff
![](/themes/interlochen/dist/img/beige-b.png)
![Mary Kay Zuravleff](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/headshots/2023-11/Mary%20Kay%20Zuravleff_Headshot.jpeg?itok=N5pQh7aR)
About Mary Kay
Mary Kay Zuravleff is the award-winning author of four novels. Her most recent, the historical novel American Ending inspired by her mother and grandmothers, was chosen for Oprah’s Spring Reading List. Her third novel, Man Alive!, was a Washington Post Notable Book, and she is also the winner of the American Academy’s Rosenthal Award, the James Jones First Novel Award, and numerous DC Artist Fellowships, including for 2024. She has taught writing at American University, Johns Hopkins, and George Mason University, as well as Interlochen, Key West, and Chautauqua.
M.A. in Creative Writing, Johns Hopkins University