Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor.

Biography

She was born and raised in

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, and attended the

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. Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...

. 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

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. As of 2013, she lives in

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Works

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)

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 ''

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'' Notable Book for 1993.
''Bop''
stories (Coffee House Press, 1986; Vintage Contemporaries, 1987)

Poetry

* ''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 & 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

*''Selected Poems of

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a Germans, German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticis ...

'', co-translated with Paul Hoover; (Omnidawn, 2008) *''New American Writing'' (with Paul Hoover), (1986) — present)

Awards

*1985 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 Fellowship

References

Sources

External links

Maxine Chernoff
Faculty profile page at San Francisco State University
Maxine Chernoff Online Works
* ttp://www.newamericanwriting.com ''New American Writing'': Web sitebr>"Add-Verse" a poetry-photo-video project Chernoff participated in
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