Jill Hoffman

Jill Hoffman is an American poet and editor.

She graduated from Bennington College with a B.A., from Columbia University with an M. A., and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. She taught at Bard College, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and The New School.

She founded Mudfish, in 1984, and the Mudfish Individual Poet Series (Box Turtle Press). Her work appeared in New York Quarterly, Paris Review, and The New Yorker.

Awards 1974 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Poetry Mink Coat Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, black diaries, Box Turtle Press, 2000, The Gates of Pearl, 2008/09

Novels Jilted, Simon & Schuster, 1993, Topless