Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff (born 1967 New York City) is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.

Life
Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was an assistant editor of the Iowa Review.

She created Fence Magazine in 1997, with an editorial staff including Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, and Matthew Rohrer, and Fence Books in 2001. Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff teaches classes for the New York State Writers Institute in Poetry and Creative Writing.

She lives in Athens, New York with her husband, the novelist Ira Sher, and their children Asher and Margot.

Awards

 * 2001 National Poetry Series for Manderley.
 * 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for Figment

Anthology

 * Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing, co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007.

Novel

 * The Beginners is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.

Reviews
L.B. Thompsons, reviewing Figment for Slope Magazine, wrote that Wolff, "is obsessed with the alluringly elusive, with flashes of vision or imagination that are impossible to either possess or forget".