Rebecca Wolff
{{Short description|American writer (born 1967)}}
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Rebecca Wolff (born November 29, 1967 in New York City){{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2012 |publisher=Gale |isbn=9780787639952 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000206560/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=bc5857b7 |access-date=March 8, 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Rebecca Wolff}}{{cite book |author1=Betsy Sussler |title=Bomb: The Author Interviews |date=2014 |publisher=Soho Press |isbn=9781616953805 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xF6OAwAAQBAJ&q=Rebecca+Wolff&pg=PT87 |access-date=March 23, 2019}} is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.
Wolff has won the 2001 National Poetry Series Award and 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her literature.
Life
Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a student editor of the Iowa Review.{{cite web |title=Rebecca Wolff |url=http://www.topologymagazine.org/author/rebeccaw/ |website=topologymagazine.org |date=February 14, 2017 |access-date=March 23, 2019}}
She created Fence Magazine in 1998, with an editorial staff including Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, and Matthew Rohrer, and Fence Books in 2001.{{cite book |title=Legitimate Dangers |last=Dumanis |first=Michael |author2=Cate Marvin |year=2006 |publisher=Sarabande Books |isbn=978-1-932511-29-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kg1mAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Rebecca+Wolff%22+%2Bfence |access-date=2008-09-15}} Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.
She was married from 2002 until 2012 to the novelist Ira Sher. She lives in Hudson, New York, with their children.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}
On June 25, 2019 Wolff was elected alderman for Hudson's First Ward for the 2020–2021 term.
Awards
- 2001 National Poetry Series for Manderley.{{cite news |title=UP Debuts. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27150176_ITM |work=Publishers Weekly |date=November 19, 2001 |access-date=2008-09-15}}
- 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for Figment.{{cite news |title=Figment. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8288417_ITM |work=Harvard Review |date=December 1, 2004 |access-date=2008-09-15}}
Works
- {{cite book |title=Manderley |publisher=University of Illinois Press |date=November 7, 2001 |isbn=978-0-252-02698-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/manderleypoems00wolfrich}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiVbTbuC7EAC&q=Rebecca+Wolff |title=Figment |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-393-05918-2}}
- {{cite book |title=The King |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |date=June 29, 2009 |isbn=978-0-393-06932-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/kingpoems0000wolf}}
=Anthology=
- Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing, co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007.{{cite news |title=Book Notes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051100014.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 13, 2007 |access-date=2008-09-15}}
- {{cite book |title=Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century |editor1=Michael Dumanis |editor2=Cate Marvin |publisher=Sarabande Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-932511-29-1}}
=Novel=
- The Beginners was published in 2011 by Riverhead Books.
=Editor=
- {{cite book |title=A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years |editor=Rebecca Wolff |publisher=Fence Books |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-934200-06-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/bestoffencefirst00wolf}}
References
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External links
- [http://at-lamp.its.uiowa.edu/virtualwu/index.php/archive/record/rebecca_wolff_and_catherine_wagner_reading/ Hear Wolff reading with Catherine Wagner]
- Audio: [http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/rebecca_wolff_reads_breeder_sonnet/ Rebecca Wolff reads "Breeder Sonnet"] from the book The King (via [http://poemsoutloud.net/ poemsoutloud.net])
- [http://www.fencemag.com Fence Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020913041350/http://www.fencemag.com/ |date=September 13, 2002 }}
- [http://www.fencebooks.org Fence Books]
- [http://jacketmagazine.com/12/wolff-fence.html "Rebecca Wolff — The Story of Fence"], Jacket 12, July 2000
- [http://www.commonlinejournal.com/2009/09/2-poems-by-rebecca-wolff.html Poetry by Rebecca Wolff], The Commonline Journal, #011
- [http://brooklynrail.org/2011/11/books/rebecca-wolff-with-jade-sharma "Rebecca Wolff with Jade Sharma"], Brooklyn Rail, November 2011
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Category:20th-century American poets
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni