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, including The Turning (2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press.
Chernoff's 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 (Omnidawn Press, 2008) which won the 2009 PEN Translation Prize.
Faculty profile page at San Francisco State University
Maxine Chernoff Online Works
Poem by Maxine Chernoff at Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks
New American Writing: Web site
"Add-Verse" a poetry-photo-video project Chernoff participated in
January 01, 1970
maxine, chernoff, born, 1952, american, novelist, writer, poet, academic, literary, magazine, editor, front, houseborn1952chicago, illinoisoccupationpoet, editor, professor, authornotable, worksamerican, heaven, some, friends, that, year, signs, devotion, sele. Maxine Chernoff born 1952 is an American novelist writer poet academic and literary magazine editor Maxine ChernoffMaxine Chernoff in front of her houseBorn1952Chicago IllinoisOccupationPoet editor professor authorNotable worksAmerican Heaven Some of Her Friends That Year Signs of Devotion Bop Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin New American WritingNotable awards1985 Carl Sanburg AwardSpousePaul HooverChildrenThree Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Novels 2 2 Short stories 2 3 Poetry 2 4 Editor 3 Awards 4 References 5 Sources 6 External linksBiography editShe 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 including The Turning 2008 and Among the Names 2005 both from Apogee Press Chernoff s 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 Holderlin Omnidawn Press 2008 which won the 2009 PEN Translation Prize As of 2013 she lives in Mill Valley California Works editNovels edit 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 Short stories edit Some of Her Friends That Year New amp Selected Stories Coffee House Press 2002 a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award Signs of Devotion stories Simon amp Schuster 1993 a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1993 Bop stories Coffee House Press 1986 Vintage Contemporaries 1987 Poetry edit Light and Clay New and Selected Poems MadHat Press 2023 Under the Music Collected Prose Poems MadHat Press 2019 Camera Subito Press 2017 Here Counterpath Press 2014 Without Shearsman England 2012 A House in Summer Argotist Press England 2012 To Be Read in the Dark Omnidawn 2011 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 amp 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 The Last Aurochs Now Press 1976 Editor edit Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin co translated with Paul Hoover Omnidawn 2008 New American Writing with Paul Hoover 1986 present Awards edit1985 Carl Sandburg 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 2013 NEA Poetry FellowshipReferences editSources edit 1 2 3 4 5 External links editMaxine 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 Add Verse a poetry photo video project Chernoff participated in Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Maxine Chernoff amp oldid 1219788590, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
