Maxine Chernoff
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| Maxine Chernoff | |
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 Maxine Posing in front of her house |
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| Born | 1952 Chicago, Illinois |
| Occupation | Poet, Editor, Professor, Author |
| Notable work(s) | American Heaven, Some of Her Friends That Year, Signs of Devotion, Bop, Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, New American Writing |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Hoover |
| Children | Three |
Maxine Chernoff was born in Chicago, Illinois in the year of 1952, where she grew up, and attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.She is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor.
Maxine Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband, Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal New American Writing. She is the author of six books of fiction and eight books of poetry, most recently The Turning (to appear in May of 2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press.
Both her novel American Heaven and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends That Year, were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Her novel A Boy in Winter is currently in production in Canada by an independent film company. With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which will be published by Omnidawn Press fall of 2008 and works on the annual literary journal New American Writing . She has read her poetry in Liege, Belgium; Cambridge, England; Sydney, Australia; Berlin, Germany; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Glasgow, Scotland; Yunnan Province, China; and St. Petersburg, Russia.
She currently lives in Mill Valley, California with her husband, and three children.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- A Boy in Winter (Crown Publishing, 1999; Harper Flamingo Australia, 2000)
- American Heaven (Coffee House Press, 1996), a finalist for the Bay Area Book
Reviewers Award
- Plain Grief (Summit, 1991; available as e-book from Previewport.com, 2001)
[edit] Short stories
- Some of Her Friends That Year: New & Selected Stories (Coffee House Press, 2002), a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
- Signs of Devotion: (stories) (Simon & Schuster, 1993) a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1993.
- Bop, stories (Coffee House Press, 1986; Vintage Contemporaries, 1987)
[edit] Poetry
- The Turning, (Apogee Press, 2008)
- Among the Names, (Apogee Press, 2005)
- Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems (Salt Publications, 2005)
- World: Poems 1991-2001 (Salt Publications, 2001)
- Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems (Another Chicago Press, 1990; Jensen Daniels, 1999)
- Japan (Avenue B Press, 1988)
- New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca House, 1985)
- | Utopia TV Store (The Yellow Press, 1979)
- A Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1976)
[edit] Editor
- Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, co-translated with Paul Hoover; (Omnidawn, 2008)
- New American Writing (with Paul Hoover), (1986) — present)
[edit] External links
- Maxine Chernoff Faculty profile page at San Francisco State University
- Apogee Press - Authors
- Maxine Chernoff Online Works
- Poem by Maxine Chernoff at Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks
- New American Writing: Web site
