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Maxine Chernoff has published 17 books of poems and six novels, one of which was a NYT Notable book of 1993. She is the winner of an NEA in poetry in 2013 and the 2009 PEN Translation Award. In 2016 she was a visiting writer at the American Academy in Rome. She is a professor of CW at SFSU and the former editor of New American Writing.