Maxine Chernoff  is the author of 20 Poetry books, most recently Light and Clay from MadHat Press. Winner of an NEA Award in poetry and a PEN Translation Award, she was a former editor of New American Writing and Oink! She also was a professsor of Creative Writing at SFSU from 1994-2024.  She has co/translayed Hoelderlin and published six books of fiction.