Rebecca Wolff. Courtesy Academy of American Poets.
Rebecca Wolff (born 1967) is an American poet and fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.[1]
Life[]
Wolff was born in New York City.
She earned an M.F.A. 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 that included Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, and Matthew Rohrer; and Fence Books in 2001.[2] Fence is now headquartered at the State University of New York 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, novelist Ira Sher, and their children, Asher and Margot.
Writing[]
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."
Recognition[]
- 2001 National Poetry Series for Manderley.[3]
- 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for Figment[4]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Manderley: Poems. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- Figment. New York: Norton, 2004.
- The King: Poems. New York: Norton, 2009.
- Warden. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014.
- One Morning. Seattle: Wave Books, 2015.
Novel[]
- The Beginners: A novel. New York: Riverhead Books, 2011.
Edited[]
- Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary poems on child-getting and child-rearing (edited with Catherine Wagner). Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2007.
- A Best of Fence: The first nine years. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2009.
Rebecca Wolff Reads Two Poems from 'The King'
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ http://rebeccawolff.com/biography.html
- ↑ Dumanis, Michael; Cate Marvin (2006). Legitimate Dangers. Sarabande Books. ISBN 9781932511291. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kg1mAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Rebecca+Wolff%22+%2Bfence&dq=%22Rebecca+Wolff%22+%2Bfence&num=100&pgis=1. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ↑ "UP Debuts.". Publishers Weekly. November 19, 2001. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27150176_ITM. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ↑ "Figment.". Harvard Review. December 1, 2004. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8288417_ITM. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ↑ Search results = au:Rebecca Wolff, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 16, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- 2 Poems by Rebecca Wolff, Commonline Winter 2009
- Rebecca Wolff profile & 7 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Prose
- Rebecca Wolff blog at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Hear Wolff reading with Catherine Wagner
- Audio: Rebecca Wolff reads "Breeder Sonnet" from the book The King
- Rebecca Wolff at YouTube
- Books
- Rebecca Wolff at Amazon.com
- About
- Etc.
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