Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. Biography. 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, 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 PEN Translation Prize. As of 2013, she lives in Mill Valley, California. Reviewers Award