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Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband, Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal "New American Writing". She is the author of six books of fiction and ten books of poetry, most recently The Turning (which appeared in May 2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press.

Both her novel American Heaven and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends That Year, were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which was published by Omnidawn Press in 2008, and won the 2009 PEN Translation Award. She has read her poetry in Liege, Belgium; Cambridge, England; Sydney, Australia; Berlin, Germany; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Glasgow, Scotland; Yunnan Province, China; and St. Petersburg, Russia, and Prague, Czech Republic.

She currently lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and three children.

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Total Books: 29
American Heaven A Novel
American Heaven a Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781566890410
ISBN-10: 1566890411
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 2/5 Stars.
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Among the Names
Among the Names (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780974468785
ISBN-10: 0974468789
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Back to the Past
Back to the Past [Attractions, Bk. 2] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780809236879
ISBN-10: 0809236877
Genres: Children's Books, Reference
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Birthplaces of Ideasbook 4
Birthplaces of Ideasbook 4 [Contemporary's Attractions, Bk. 4] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780809236855
ISBN-10: 0809236850
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Reference
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Bop
Bop (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780918273192
ISBN-10: 0918273196
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A Boy in Winter
A Boy in Winter (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780609605226
ISBN-10: 0609605224
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Bridge Issue 1 Volume 1
Bridge Issue 1 Volume 1 [Bridge; Stories and Ideas] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780970578204
ISBN-10: 0970578202
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Camera
Camera (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780998859439
ISBN-10: 0998859435
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Evolution of the Bridge Selected Prose Poems
Evolution of the Bridge Selected Prose Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781844710386
ISBN-10: 1844710386
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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In the News  Mastering Reading and Language Skills with the Newspaper
It's Colossal
It's Colossal [Attractions, Bk. 1] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780809236886
ISBN-10: 0809236885
Genre: Reference
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Japan
Japan (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780939691012
ISBN-10: 0939691019
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Leap Year Day
Leap Year Day (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781893032071
ISBN-10: 1893032078
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Leap Year Day New and Selected Poems
Leap Year Day New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780929968117
ISBN-10: 0929968115
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New Faces of 1952
New Faces of 1952 [Ithaca House Poetry Series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780878861248
ISBN-10: 0878861246
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Plain Grief
Plain Grief (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780671724634
ISBN-10: 0671724630
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Signs of Devotion
Signs of Devotion (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780517154595
ISBN-10: 0517154595
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Some of Her Friends That Year  New and Selected Stories
Some of Her Friends That Year New and Selected Stories (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781566891271
ISBN-10: 1566891272
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Sun and Games
Sun and Games [Attractions, Bk. 3] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780809236862
ISBN-10: 0809236869
Genres: Reference, Travel
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The Turning
The Turning (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780978766740
ISBN-10: 0978766741
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Utopia TV Store
Utopia Tv Store (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780916328139
ISBN-10: 0916328139
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World Poems 19912001 [Salt Modern Poets] (Paperback)