Maxine Chernoff is the author of a number of books of fiction and poetry, including Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems. A frequent reviewer for the New York Times, she is a winner of the P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award and New York Times Notable Book Award. With Paul Hoover, she translatedThe Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which won the 2009 PEN Translation Award, and together they edit the long-running literary journal New American Writing. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Story, Partisan Review, North American Review, and Triquarterly, among many other journals and reviews.
