Mazur, Dana

Dana Mazur

Mainstream / Fantasy short stories, film director, theatre

Dana Zhamanbalina Mazur is a film and theater director. Born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, she holds an MFA in Theater Directing from Kazakhstan State Institute of Cinema and Theater and was very honored to receive the most prestigious international study grant from the government of Kazakhstan for two consecutive years. She interned with MTV Networks and assisted in the launching of MTV Russia. Dana completed her film debut “Bird of Paradise”, a magical-realist featurette and currently is developing a feature.

Dana Mazur short stories

Care for Twins by Dana Mazur

Connie, the hapless nanny of Max, has a secret that perpetuates a world of self-torture and misplaced loyalties.  Can the mystical stranger who so suddenly turns Connie’s internal beauty inside-out, lift the veil on a love fixation that can never be?  (Mainstream / Fantasy)

Editor’s Note: This is a mainstream fantasy that hurts with its truth.  Thank you, Dana, for writing such a biting story that doesn’t shield the reader from this character’s reality and pain.  Thank you for showing us the other side, too, within the very same story. Great stuff.  —womblin