- Rebecca Wolff
Rebecca Wolff is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books. Her first collection, "Manderley", was selected for the National Poetry Series in 2001. [cite news |title=UP Debuts. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27150176_ITM |work=
Publishers Weekly |date=November 19, 2001 |accessdate=2008-09-15 ] "Figment", [cite news |title=Figment. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8288417_ITM |work=Harvard Review |date=December 1, 2004 |accessdate=2008-09-15 ] her second book, won the Barnard Women's Poetry Prize in 2003. An anthology "Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing", co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007. [cite news |title=Book Notes |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051100014.html |work=The Washington Post |date=May 13, 2007 |accessdate=2008-09-15 ] A novel entitled "The Beginners" is forthcoming.Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was assistant editor of the Iowa Review. She created Fence Magazine in 1997, with an editorial staff including Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker and Matthew Rohrer, and Fence Books in 2001. [cite book |title=Legitimate Dangers |last=Dumanis |first=Michael |coauthors=Cate Marvin |year=2006 |publisher=Sarabande Books |isbn=9781932511291 |pages= |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kg1mAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Rebecca+Wolff%22+%2Bfence&dq=%22Rebecca+Wolff%22+%2Bfence&num=100&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-09-15] Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff teaches classes in Poetry and Creative Writing. She lives in Athens, NY with her husband, the novelist Ira Scherr, and their children Asher and Margot.
L.B. Thompsons, reviewing Figment for Slope Magazine, wrote that Wolff, "is obsessed with the alluringly elusive, with flashes of vision or imagination that are impossible to either possess or forget."
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External links
* [http://at-lamp.its.uiowa.edu/virtualwu/index.php/archive/record/rebecca_wolff_and_catherine_wagner_reading/ Hear Wolff reading with Catherine Wagner]
* [http://www.fencemag.com Fence Magazine]
* [http://www.fencebooks.org Fence Books]
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