Mary Bucci Bush (born 1949) is an American author and a professor of English and creative writing at California State University, Los Angeles.
[1] Bush won a PEN/Nelson Algren award for her collection of short stories, A Place of Light, in 1987;[2] a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 1995;[1] and the Tillie Olsen Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association for her novel, Sweet Hope, in 2012.
In 1984 she co-founded the Community Writers Project in Syracuse with fellow novelist Rachel Guido deVries.
[4] Her fiction has appeared in literary journals such as Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Black Warrior Review, and Italian Americana; and in anthologies such as The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women's Fiction (Guernica, 2007),[7] Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin, 1999),[8] and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017).
[1] Her most recent novel, Sweet Hope (Guernica Editions, 2011), tells the story of Italian and African-American families living and working together on a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation in the early 1900s.