Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff (born November 29, 1967, in New York City) 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.

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. 2003: Barnard Women Poets Prize for Figment.

Works

Anthology Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing, co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007.

Novel The Beginners was published in 2011 by Riverhead Books.

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