Women's Review of Books Appoints Amy Hoffman as Editor in Chief

July 23, 2003

Wellesley, MA – Susan McGee Bailey, Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Research on Women, recently announced the appointment of Amy Hoffman as Editor in Chief of the Women’s Review of Books, a project of the Center. Hoffman, who has a BA from Brandeis University in English and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is only the second editor of the Women’s Review in 20 years. Hoffman has previously been an editor at the Unitarian Universalist World magazine, South End Press, and Gay Community News. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts and Emerson College. Her memoir, Hospital Time, about taking care of friends with AIDS, was published by the Duke University Press in 1997.

Bailey said, “We are delighted to welcome Amy to the Women’s Review and the Center. Amy will continue the great tradition of the Women’s Review while adding her own special viewpoint. We look forward to another 20 years of lively commentary on women's writing."

The monthly Women’s Review of Books was founded in 1983 by outgoing Editor in Chief Linda Gardiner. As the only US publication focusing on books by and about women, the Women’s Review holds a unique place in the publishing world.

Hoffman says the mission of the Women’s Review—to give women’s writing the serious critical attention it does not receive elsewhere—will remain unchanged. She plans to cultivate a well-informed, diverse group of writers. “As we say in our masthead each month, ‘We seek to represent the widest possible range of feminist perspectives both in the books reviewed and in the content of the reviews,’ ” said Hoffman.

For more information on the Women's Review of Books, visit the Women’s Review at www.womensreview.org.

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