Andrew Mozina

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."[1]

In 2014, Mozina performed in a video for Milwaukee power pop band The Mike Benign Compulsion, "Professional Jealousy/Saw Your Post."[2]

gollark: I know Joshua *isn't*, at least?
gollark: I'm not clear exactly what everyone is doing, but:- Ojas and someone are doing mechanical/hardware design, which is general to basically all the challenges- me and Aidan are doing cameras and sensors, which generalizes to most of them- actually I have no idea if anyone else is doing anything
gollark: Only because lots of people are effectively just ignoring the team divisions.
gollark: I don't think mr wilde will mind if we come up with a better way to organize stuff and explain why.
gollark: What?

References
  1. History of the Pail and Shovel Party, with reference to its influence on the Silly Party
  2. "Professional Jealousy/Saw Your Post" Official video, the Mike Benign Compulsion
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