BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
ANNE-CHRISTINE HOFF
Anne-Christine Hoff was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 16th, 1973. She is the second daughter of Austrian-born parents, Lisa Decristoforo Hoff and Gerhardt Michael Hoff. While living in Baltimore, Hoff’s father was an insurance executive, and her mother was a homemaker. In 1978, the family moved to Atlanta when her father’s company moved its offices to Atlanta, Georgia.
In Atlanta Anne-Christine attended Trinity Elementary School before transferring to The Westminster Schools, a private school in North Atlanta, in the sixth grade. At Westminster she swam competitively and edited the editorials section of the school newspaper. In 1985 her father resigned his position with Sun Life Insurance Company and returned to law school. After passing the bar, he began practicing law for a small Atlanta firm, and her mother founded Cities in Color, Inc, a travel guide book business, which she still owns today.
While attending Barnard College from 1991 to 1995, Hoff developed a keen interest in Italian literature and history. After completing her B.A, she worked briefly as a reporter for a weekly newspaper in Vidalia, Georgia, but small town life did not suit her, and the following fall she began an MA program in the Humanities at New York University. There she studied with comparative literature professors John Chioles and Richard Sieburth, and wrote her masters thesis on Ezra Pound's Salo Cantos. After receiving her M.A., she worked temporarily as a receptionist for the Knightsbridge Crown Courts in South London.
From 1998 to 2005, she was a Ph.D. candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Georgia, where she received her Ph.D. in August 2005. She is currently the managing editor of The New Humanist.com. She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she teaches composition and creative writing at the University of Georgia.