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Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois, where she grew up, and attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

She currently works at San Francisco State University and edits the annual literary journal New American Writing with her husband, Paul Hoover.

Maxine and her husband have translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin and will have them published sometime this year.

Chernoff, her husband, and their three children live in Mill Valley, California.

Novels
Reviewers Award
 * | A Boy in Winter (Crown Publishing, 1999; Harper Flamingo Australia, 2000)
 * | American Heaven (Coffee House Press, 1996), a finalist for the Bay Area Book
 * | Plain Grief (Summit, 1991; available as e-book from Previewport.com, 2001)

Short stories

 * | Some of Her Friends That Year: New & Selected Stories (Coffee House Press, 2002), a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
 * | Signs of Devotion: (stories) (Simon & Schuster, 1993) a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1993.
 * | Bop, stories (Coffee House Press, 1986; Vintage Contemporaries, 1987)

Poetry

 * The Turning, (Apogee Press, 2008)
 * | Among the Names, (Apogee Press, 2005)
 * | Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems (Salt Publications, 2005)
 * | World: Poems 1991-2001 (Salt Publications, 2001)
 * |Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems (Another Chicago Press, 1990; Jensen Daniels, 1999)
 * |Japan (Avenue B Press, 1988)
 * New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca House, 1985)
 * | Utopia TV Store'' (The Yellow Press, 1979)
 * | A Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1976)

Editor

 * Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, co-translated with Paul Hoover; (Omnidawn, 2008)
 * New American Writing (with Paul Hoover), (1986) — present)