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Richard Hoffman’s eleven books include the memoirs Half the House, winner of the Boston Athenaeum Reader’s Award and Love & Fury, a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers Award. He has published five books of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; Noon until Night, winner of the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award, and his most recent, People Once Real. His other books include the story collection Interference and Other Stories, and the 2023 essay collection Remembering the Alchemists. His work, both prose and verse, appears in such journals as Agni, Consequence, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, The Literary Review, The Manhattan Review, PN Review (UK), Poetry, Witness, World Literature Today and elsewhere. In September, Lily Poetry Review Books will publish two volumes of his New & Selected Poems, Each Child a Disappearance, and Mundus et Infans: Selected Suites, Sequences, and Series. He is Emeritus Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and Nonfiction Editor of Solstice: a Magazine of Diverse Voices.

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