Spouse Paul Hoover Children Three | Name Maxine Chernoff Role Novelist | |
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Occupation Poet, editor, professor, author Notable works American Heaven, Some of Her Friends That Year, Signs of Devotion, Bop, Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin, New American Writing Notable awards 1985 Carl Sanburg Award Education University of Illinois at Chicago Books Among the Names, The Turning, American heaven, Evolution of the Bridge, Some of her friends that year | ||
Readings in Contemporary Poetry - Maxine Chernoff and Emily Skillings
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.
Contents
- Readings in Contemporary Poetry Maxine Chernoff and Emily Skillings
- Novels
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Editor
- Awards
- References
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.
As of 2013, she lives in Mill Valley, California.
Novels
Reviewers Award