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The daughter of a painter and a linguist, Marisa Matarazzo grew up in Los Angeles. She attended Harvard-Westlake high school and pursued acting as a teenager. She earned her BA from Yale, where she received the Wallace Prize for fiction writing, the Jodie Foster Scholarship, the Arthur Willis Colton Scholarship, and was a two-time recipient of the Elmore A. Willets Prize for fiction. Earning her MFA from UC Irvine, she was the recipient of the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship. Her stories have been published in Faultline, Hobart, and fivechapters.com. She lives in Los Angeles.
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