Jill (ed) Hoffman

Jill Hoffman started out as a poet. After graduating from Bennington College, she received an M.A. from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and in 1974-75, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.

She has had a long teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature, English Poetry, and Creative Writing at Brooklyn College in the Master’s Program with John Ashbery, at Bard College, Columbia University (School of General Studies), Barnard College, Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, The New School, and now Jill Hoffman’s Mudfish Workshop in New York, where she teaches fiction writing.

Hoffman published many poems in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review and a multitude of other magazines before starting her own journal of art, fiction and poetry, Mudfish (Box Turtle Press), in 1984. Mudfish18 is about to go to press.

Her book, Mink Coat (poems) was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1973 (The New York Times review said "all hits, no misses") and her first novel, Jilted was published by Simon and Schuster in 1993 and was translated into Japanese (Cosmopolitan called her "a female Henry Miller")