Maxine ChernoffMaxine Chernoff is the author of more than 20 poetry collections and 6works of fiction including a NYT Notable Book of 1993, Signs of Devotion.With Paul Hoover she won the 2009 PEN International Translation Awardfor their work on Friedrich Hoelderlinas well as a 2013 NEA Fellowshipin Poetry. An emeritus professor of Creative Writing at SFSU, she served aschair from 1997-2016. She has also taught at Exeter University in England(2013), the Prague Summer Program for Writers (2010), and for the SummerLiterary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia (2001). In 2016 she was a visitingwriter at the American Academy in Rome. She has read her work internationallyin England, Scotland, Belgium, Russia, the Czech Republic, China, and Brazil. Former co-editor of New American Writing, she has lived in the Bay Area since 1994. Whilestill a Chicago resident, she won the Carl Sandburg Award, The Chicago Sun-Times Fiction Award, and5 Illinois Arts Council Fellowships. She was a frequent reviewer of fiction for the New York Times, theChicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Her two previous books, Under the Music: Collected ProsePoems and Light and Clay: Selected Poems are available from MadHat Press, which will bring out a bookof essays about her work, A Jar of Air, in 2026. Read More Read Less