B. 1967

Born and raised in New York City, Rebecca Wolff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry collections include One Morning— (2015); The King (2009); Figment (2004), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Manderley (2001), selected for the 2001 National Poetry Series. In the Harvard Review, Ellen Davis writes, “Wolff’s darkly funny, urbane poems offer observations on gender, work, motherhood, social life, sex, writing, and literature. … These poems give us memorable, highly original figments.”

Wolff is also the author of the novel The Beginners (2011). She is the founding editor of Fence magazine and Fence Books. She lives in Hudson, New York and teaches at the New York State Writers Institute.