Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff in front of her house
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
Notable award(s) 1985 Carl Sanburg Award
Spouse(s) Paul Hoover
Children Three

Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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 ten books of poetry, most recently The Turning (which appeared in May 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. With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which was published by Omnidawn Press in 2008, and won the 2009 PEN Translation Award. She has read her poetry in Liege, Belgium; Cambridge, England; Sydney, Australia; Berlin, Germany; São Paulo, Brazil; Glasgow, Scotland; Yunnan Province, China; and St. Petersburg, Russia, and Prague, Czech Republic.

She currently lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and three children.

Contents

Works

Novels

Reviewers Award

  • Plain Grief (Summit, 1991; available as e-book from Previewport.com, 2001)

Short stories

Poetry

Editor

  • Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, co-translated with Paul Hoover; (Omnidawn, 2008)
  • New American Writing (with Paul Hoover), (1986) — present)

Awards

  • 1985 Carl Sanburg Award,
  • 1985 PEN New Books Award
  • 1986 Friends of American Writers' Award
  • 1986 LSU Southern Review Fiction Award
  • 1993 Sun-Times Fiction Prize
  • 1988 CCLM Editors' Award
  • 2002 Marin Arts Council Fellowship
  • 1996 and 2002 BABRA finalist
  • 2009 PEN Translation Award
  • 5 Illinois Arts Council Fellowships

External links

References

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