Mindy Aloff (born December 1947

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) is an American editor,

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, and dance critic. Aloff's wirting on dance, literature, film, and culture have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other artilces and publications worldwide.

Life

She was educated at

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, and graduated from

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, and

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with an M.A. She married the poet Martin Steven Cohen, in 1968; they have one daughter, Ariel Nikiya, (1985). Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', ''The Threepenny Review'', and ''Voice of Dance''. Since 2000, she has taught as an adjunct member of the Dance faculty at

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Awards

* 1987 Whiting Award * 1990

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

* Woodrow Wilson Fellow

Works

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References

External links

"Author's website"
* ttp://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/mindy-aloff#/ The Whiting Foundation profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Aloff, Mindy 1947 births American essayists Barnard College faculty Living people Writers from Philadelphia University at Buffalo alumni Vassar College alumni