Quick Facts
Biography
Amy Hoffman (born 1952) is an American writer, editor, and community activist.
Early life
Hoffman was born to a traditional Jewish family. She was the eldest of six children, and grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Hoffman graduated from Brandeis University in 1976.
Career
Hoffman worked as an editor for Boston's Gay Community News from 1978 to 1982. As features editor, she was responsible for putting together the June 1979 Stonewall tenth anniversary issue.
Hoffman published her first book, Hospital Time, in 1997, with a foreword by Urvashi Vaid. The book recollects her friendship with Mike Riegle in the wake of his death from AIDS.
In 2007, Hoffman wrote the memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers about her time as an editor for Gay Community News. 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.
Hoffman was editor-in-chief of Women's Review of Books from 2003 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2018. 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.
Personal life
Amy Hoffman is married to Roberta Stone.
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.