Maxine Chernoff
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Maxine Chernoff (born 1952, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer and poet.
She is the author of six collections of fiction, one of which, Signs of Devotion, was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1993. She has published a novel, American Heaven (1996), which was a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, as was her story collection Some of Her Friends that Year (2002). She has published seven books of poetry, including World: Poems 1991-2001 and Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems. She is the editor of the literary journal New American Writing.
She lives with poet Paul Hoover and their three children in Mill Valley, California.
[edit] 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
