Mindy Aloff

Mindy Aloff (born December 1947 Philadelphia) is an American editor, journalist, essayist, and dance critic.

Life

She was educated at Philadelphia High School for Girls, and graduated from Vassar College, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with an M.A. She married the poet Martin Steven Cohen, in 1968; they have one daughter, Ariel Nikiya, (1985).

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation,^[1] The New Republic, The Jewish Daily Forward, The Threepenny Review, and Voice of Dance.^[2] Since 2000, she has taught as an adjunct member of the Dance faculty at Barnard College.^[3]

Awards

• 1990 Guggenheim Fellow ^[4]
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• 1987 Whiting Writers' Award

Works

• Night lights: poems. Prescott Street Press. 1979. ISBN 9780915986132. 
• Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation. Disney Editions. 2009. ISBN 9781423100799. 
• Mindy Aloff, ed (2006). Dance anecdotes: stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195054118. http://books.google.com/books?id=FLxMnkK_ajoC&dq=Mindy+Aloff&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=MC7Oei8_kG&sig=_ce4DZ18WNBDZ0xde54ridGU8Ls&hl=en&ei=zhg9S7mfLIq4ngei8_DuCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAoQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/mindy_aloff
2. ^ http://www.voiceofdance.com/v1/author.cfm?author=39
3. ^ http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/newnews/news061003.html
4. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/239-mindy-aloff

External links

• "Author's website"
• "A Conversation with Mindy Aloff", Fulle Circle Magazine, February 22, 2009

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