Lecturer Carlie Hoffman Wins National Jewish Book Award
Hoffman won the Berru Poetry Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash for When There Was Light.
When There Was Light, Carlie Hoffman’s second collection of poetry, won the National Jewish Book Awards’ Berru Poetry Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash.
The National Jewish Book Awards are given by the Jewish Book Council—founded in 1943, it’s the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature.
Hoffman, Lecturer in Creative Writing, is the author of two collections of poetry. In addition to When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), her debut, This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), won the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award.
A poet and translator, her honors include a “Discovery” / Boston Review Prize and a Poet’s & Writers Amy Award.
Hoffman’s poetry, translations, fiction, reviews, and critical writing have been published or are forthcoming in POETRY, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia Journal, Jewish Currents, Boston Review, New England Review, and many other publications.
Hoffman is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Small Orange Journal, where she curates and edits the interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets.
