Rebecca Wolff (born November 29, 1967 in

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) is a

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, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both ''

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'' and Fence Books. Wolff has won the 2001

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Award and 2003

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for her literature.

Life

Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a student editor of the '' Iowa Review''. She created ''Fence Magazine'' in 1998, with an editorial staff including

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, Frances Richard,

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, and

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, and Fence Books in 2001. ''Fence'' is now headquartered at the

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, where Wolff is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute. She was married from 2002 until 2012 to the novelist Ira Sher. She lives in

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, with their children. On June 25, 2019 Wolff was elected alderman for Hudson's First Ward for the 2020–2021 term.

Awards

* 2001

for ''Manderley''. * 2003

for ''Figment.''

Works

* * *

Anthology

* ''Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing'', co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007. *

Novel

* ''The Beginners'' was published in 2011 by Riverhead Books.

Life

Awards

Works

Anthology

Novel

Editor

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