Mazza has published more than a dozen books with more than six indie presses, and has established a strong cult indie following Won a PEN / Nelson Algren Award for her novel How to Leave a Country, judged by Studs Terkel Mazza's work is widely recognized for exemplifying the concerns of second and third wave feminism, and has the opportunity to be discovered by younger readers inspired by contemporary mainstream feminism In essays and interviews at The Huffington Post, Rain Taxi, and XOJane, Mazza has discussed her struggle to comfortably identify along the lines of sexuality and gender, as well as her own anorgasmia (the inabillity to orgasm), prescient topics in today's mainstream discussions of identity topics, and will continue to do so to help market this collection.