Mary Otis is the author of Burst, longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and winner

of the 2023 Silver Medal in Literary Fiction from the Independent Book Publisher Awards.

The moving debut novel explores the relationship complexities between mothers and

daughters. She’s also the author of Yes, Yes Cherries, a collection of short stories author Lorrie

Moore called “funny, brave and amazing.” A founding fiction professor in the UC Riverside