Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff is an American writer and poet.

She is the author of six collections of fiction, one of which was New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1993, Signs of Devotion. She has published a novel, American Heaven, which alongside her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends that Year, were both finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. She has published seven books of poetry, which include World: Poems 1991-2001 and Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, England). She is editor of the journal New American Writing. She lives with poet Paul Hoover and their three children in Mill Valley, California.

External links

• Apogee Press - Authors
• Maxine Chernoff Online Works