Rebecca Wolff (born 29 November 1967, New York City)[1][2] is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.
Wolff has won the 2001 National Poetry Series Award and 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her literature.
[3] She created Fence Magazine in 1998, with an editorial staff including Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, and Matthew Rohrer, and Fence Books in 2001.
[4][3] Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.
[citation needed] On June 25, 2019 Wolff was elected alderman for Hudson's First Ward for the 2020–2021 term.