Amy Hoffman
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
Alma materBrandeis University
Genre
Notable worksAn Army of Ex-Lovers
Website
amyhoffman.net

Amy Hoffman (born 1952) is an American writer, editor, and community activist.[1]

Early life

Hoffman was born to a traditional Jewish family.[2] She was the eldest of six children, and grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey.[3]

Hoffman graduated from Brandeis University in 1976.[1]

Career

Hoffman worked as an editor for Boston's Gay Community News from 1978 to 1982.[4] As features editor, she was responsible for putting together the June 1979 Stonewall tenth anniversary issue.[5]

Hoffman published her first book, Hospital Time, in 1997, with a foreword by Urvashi Vaid.[6][7] The book recollects her friendship with Mike Riegle in the wake of his death from AIDS.[8]

In 2007, Hoffman wrote the memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers about her time as an editor for Gay Community News.[4] The memoir was met with positive reviews in LGBT and mainstream media, and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award and a Lambda Book Award in 2008.[1][2][4][6][9][10]

Hoffman was editor-in-chief of Women's Review of Books from 2003 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2018.[1][6] Women's Review of Books had shut down between these periods due to lack of financing; Hoffman was the party most responsible for reviving the magazine.[3]

Personal life

Amy Hoffman is married to Roberta Stone.[1]

Publications

Memoirs

  • Hoffman, Amy (1997). Hospital Time. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822383031.
  • Hoffman, Amy (2007). An Army of Ex-Lovers: My life at the Gay Community News. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781558496217.
  • Hoffman, Amy (2013). Lies About My Family. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781625340030.

Novels

  • Hoffman, Amy (2019). The Off Season. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299314606.
  • Hoffman, Amy (2022). Dot & Ralfie. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299333645.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Amy Hoffman". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2010.
  2. 1 2 "An army of ex-lovers; my life at the Gay community news". Reference & Research Book News. 23 (3). August 2008 – via Gale Academic OneFile.
  3. 1 2 Crapo, Trish (2011). "Amy Hoffman: Creating the Story of Her Life". Provincetown Arts Magazine: 117.
  4. 1 2 3 "Stephanie Grant (Map of Ireland) and Amy Hoffman (An Army of Ex-Lovers)". Center Happenings. 23 (3). March 2008.
  5. ↑ Hoffman, Amy (April 2, 2020). "Love One Another or Die". Boston Review. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 "Amy B. Hoffman, M.F.A." Wellesley Centers for Women. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  7. ↑ Brophy, Sarah (2004). "Queering the Kaddish: Amy Hoffmanʼs Hospital Time and the Practice of Critical Memory". Witnessing AIDS : writing, testimony and the work of mourning. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4426-8352-5. OCLC 288099281.
  8. ↑ Brophy, Sarah (2004). Witnessing AIDS : writing, testimony and the work of mourning. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-4426-8352-5. OCLC 288099281.
  9. ↑ Scott, Whitney (December 15, 2007). "An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News". Booklist. 104 (8): 7 – via Gale Academic OneFile.
  10. ↑ Abbott, Charlotte. (December 4, 2007). "Printing Press: An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News". The Advocate (998): 65.
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