WOLF, Michele

PERSONAL: Born in Denville, NJ; daughter of Sheldon Wolf and Dorothy Shapiro Yospe; married Sanford Herzon (a high school science teacher), August 5, 2001. Education: Boston University, B.S. (public communication; summa cum laude); Columbia University, M.S. (journalism).

ADDRESSES: Home—4615 North Park Ave., No. 810, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4514. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Chevy Chase, MD, writer and editor, 1987—; Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, copy editor; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, associate copy editor; Harper's Bazaar, New York, NY, associate editor; Boston Ballet, Boston, MA, publicist. Administrative staff, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1990-92.

MEMBER: PEN American Center, Poetry Society of America, American Society of Journalists and Authors.

AWARDS, HONORS: Chapbook series prize, Painted Bride Quarterly, 1995, for The Keeper of Light,; Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for poems on the Jewish experience, Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1997, for poem "Trees"; Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Anhinga Press, 1997, for Conversations during Sleep.

WRITINGS:

The Keeper of Light, Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series, 1995.

Conversations during Sleep, Anhinga Press (Tallahassee, FL), 1998.

Contributor to anthologies, including Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace, Partisan Press; Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, Northwestern University Press; IAm Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, If I Had a Hammer: Women's Work, and When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, all Papier-Mache Press; and Out of Season, Amagansett Press. Contributor of poetry to periodicals, including Poetry, Hudson Review, Boulevard, Antioch Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Confrontation, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and others.

WORK IN PROGRESS: "The Great Tsunami" (poetry).

SIDELIGHTS: Michele Wolf told CA: "I strive for lyrical poems with a narrative base and a strong emphasis on lucid imagery and the interplay of sounds, always trying to fully use the aesthetic capacities of language. To me, a poem, no matter what its subject—emotional bonds, mortality, adversity, bliss—is an act of discovery and connection. At its end, both the writer and the reader should arrive at a place they assumed they had known, only to find it has been transformed."