Background
Sonenberg, Maya was born on February 24, 1960 in New York City. Daughter of Jack Sonenberg and Phoebe (Rubin) Helman-Sonenberg.
(Fiction. Voices from the Blue Hotel is a collection of te...)
Fiction. Voices from the Blue Hotel is a collection of ten stories told by narrators troubled by difficult emotions. The characters explore these sensations in a way that is intense and achingly human. "Voices from the Blue Hotel is a concept album, a whole much greater than the sum of its (superb) parts, a bildungsroman-in stories. Wanting what we don't want becomes wanting what we do want. Depressed blue becomes sky blue, sexy blue. An impressively hard-won joy winds up animating this precise, beautiful, serious, and substantial book." - David Shields.
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Sonenberg, Maya was born on February 24, 1960 in New York City. Daughter of Jack Sonenberg and Phoebe (Rubin) Helman-Sonenberg.
Bachelor in English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1982. Master of Arts in Creative Writing, Brown University, 1984.
Lecturer Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, 1986. Instructor Chabot College, Hayward, 1989-1990. Assistant professor Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1990-1993.
Assistant professor department English, University Washington, Seattle, 1993—2000, associate professor department English, since 2000, director creative writing program, since 2001. Panelist Artist Trust, Seattle, 1994, 2009. Director creative writing program 2001-2009.
Editor Calyx Books, Corvallis, since 1993. Manuscript reviewer St. Martin's Press, New York City, since 1992.
(Fiction. Voices from the Blue Hotel is a collection of te...)
Member Modern Language Association, Associate Writing Programs, Pacific Northwest American Studies Association.