Amy Hoffman

A writer and community activist, Amy is currently editor in chief of Women’s Review of Books. She has also been an editor at Gay Community News, South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine. Amy taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts and Emerson College and served as development director for the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and the Women’s Lunch Place, a daytime shelter for homeless women. Additionally, she has written many features and reviews for Prairie Schooner, GCN, Sojourner, and other publications.

Amy received her BA in English from Brandeis University and Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Hospital Time, her memoir about taking care of friends with AIDS in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was published by Duke University Press in 1997. It was short-listed for the American Library Association Gay Book Award and the New York Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection. It has been adopted in college and university courses and is the subject of chapters in several works of literary criticism.

Her memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers, about GCN and Boston’s lesbian and gay movement during the late 1970s, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in Fall 2007.

Amy Hoffman's activism has included working for peace with the Jamaica Plain Action Network and Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine; and volunteering with the Reproductive Rights Network and the Out/Write lesbian and gay writers conference. She has served on the boards of GCN, Sojourner, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), and the Boston Lesbian and Gay History Project and as a judge of the Lambda Literary Awards.

Amy grew up in New Jersey, the oldest of six children (go figure). She has lived in Boston since 1973. In November 2004 Amy married her partner of 16 years, the fabulous realtor, photographer, and writer Roberta Stone.

When not writing she enjoys reading, cooking, bicycling, yoga, and hanging out with Roberta.