Rebecca Wolff

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Rebecca Wolff is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books. Her first collection, Manderley, was selected for the National Poetry Series in 2001. Figment, her second book, won the Barnard Women's Poetry Prize in 2003. An anthology Not for Mothers Only, Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child Rearing, co-edited with Catherine Wagner, was published in 2007. A novel entitled The Beginners is forthcoming.

Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was assistant 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. Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff teaches classes in Poetry and Creative Writing. She lives in Athens, NY with her husband, the novelist Ira Scherr, and their children Asher and Margot.

L.B. Thompsons, reviewing Figment for Slope Magazine, wrote that Wolff, "is obsessed with the alluringly elusive, with flashes of vision or imagination that are impossible to either possess or forget."

You can find Wolff's writing on the web at:

And hear her reading with Catherine Wagner: http://at-lamp.its.uiowa.edu/virtualwu/index.php/archive/record/rebecca_wolff_and_catherine_wagner_reading/

Fence Magazine on the web: www.fencemag.com Fence Books on the web: www.fencebooks.org