Maxine Chernoff chairs the Creative Writing Department at SFSU and edits New American Writing. She co-edited The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin, which won the 2009 PEN Tanslation Award. As well as six books of fiction, she has written thriteen books of poetry, most recently, To Be Read in The Dark (Omnidawn), A House in Summer (Argotiste), and Without (Shearsman).