Maxine Chernoff
Encyclopedia
Maxine Chernoff 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.
Reviewers Award
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novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. She was born and raised in Chicago
Chicago
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, Illinois
Illinois
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, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
.
Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband, Paul Hoover
Paul Hoover
Paul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry....
, she edits the long-running literary journal "New American Writing
New American Writing
New American Writing is a once-a-year American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing. The magazine is published in association with San Francisco State University. New American Writing is published by OINK! Press, a...
". 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
Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. The population was 13,903 at the 2010 census.Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of Richardson Bay...
, with her husband and three children.
Novels
- A Boy in Winter (Crown Publishing, 19991999 in literatureThe year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...
; Harper Flamingo Australia, 2000) - American Heaven (Coffee House Press, 19961996 in literatureThe year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."* In the United Kingdom, the first...
), a finalist for the Bay Area Book
Reviewers Award
- Plain Grief (Summit, 19911991 in literatureThe year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....
; available as e-book from Previewport.com, 2001)
Short stories
- Some of Her Friends That Year: New & Selected Stories (Coffee House Press, 20022002 in literatureThe year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...
), a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award - Signs of Devotion: (stories) (Simon & Schuster, 19931993 in literatureThe year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....
) a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 19931993 in literatureThe year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....
. - Bop, stories (Coffee House Press, 1986; Vintage Contemporaries, 19871987 in literatureThe year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...
)
Poetry
- 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 HölderlinFriedrich HölderlinJohann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...
, 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
- Maxine 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