Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff
Born	November 29, 1967  New York City
Occupation	Poet
Organization	Fence Magazine

Rebecca Wolff (born November 29, 1967 in New York City) ^{[1] [2]} is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.

Wolff has won the 2001 National Poetry Series Award and 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her literature.

Life

Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a student editor of the Iowa Review . ^[3]

She created Fence Magazine in 1998, with an editorial staff including Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, and Matthew Rohrer, and Fence Books in 2001. ^{[4] [3]} Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute. ^[3]

She was married from 2002 until 2012 to the novelist Ira Sher. She lives in Hudson, New York, with their children.^{[ citation needed ]}

On June 25, 2019 Wolff was elected alderman for Hudson's First Ward for the 2020–2021 term.

Awards

• 2001 National Poetry Series for Manderley. ^[5]
• 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for Figment. ^[6]

Works

• Manderley. University of Illinois Press. November 7, 2001. ISBN   978-0-252-02698-0.
• Figment. W. W. Norton & Company. 2004. ISBN   978-0-393-05918-2.
• The King. W. W. Norton & Company. June 29, 2009. ISBN   978-0-393-06932-7.

Anthology

• Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing, co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007. ^[7]
• Michael Dumanis; Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN   978-1-932511-29-1.

Novel

• The Beginners was published in 2011 by Riverhead Books.

Editor

• Rebecca Wolff, ed. (2008). A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. Fence Books. ISBN   978-1-934200-06-3.

References

1. "Rebecca Wolff". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Collection). Gale. 2012. ISBN   9780787639952 . Retrieved March 8, 2022.
2. Betsy Sussler (2014). Bomb: The Author Interviews. Soho Press. ISBN   9781616953805 . Retrieved March 23, 2019.
3. "Rebecca Wolff". topologymagazine.org. February 14, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
4. Dumanis, Michael; Cate Marvin (2006). Legitimate Dangers. Sarabande Books. ISBN   978-1-932511-29-1 . Retrieved September 15, 2008.
5. "UP Debuts". Publishers Weekly . November 19, 2001. Retrieved September 15, 2008.
6. "Figment". Harvard Review . December 1, 2004. Retrieved September 15, 2008.
7. "Book Notes". The Washington Post . May 13, 2007. Retrieved September 15, 2008.

External links

• Hear Wolff reading with Catherine Wagner
• Audio: Rebecca Wolff reads "Breeder Sonnet" from the book The King (via poemsoutloud.net)
• Fence Magazine Archived September 13, 2002, at the Library of Congress Web Archives
• Fence Books
• "Rebecca Wolff — The Story of Fence", Jacket 12, July 2000
• Poetry by Rebecca Wolff, The Commonline Journal, #011
• "Rebecca Wolff with Jade Sharma", Brooklyn Rail, November 2011