Some of Her Friends That Year
Author Biography

Born in Chicago in 1952, Maxine Chernoff has published several collections of poems, short stories, and novels, including American Heaven and Signs of Devotion, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Chernoff edits the long-running literary journal New American Writing with her husband, the poet Paul Hoover. The winner of a PEN Fiction Award, Chernoff is chair of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.