Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...
and journalist.
Life
She graduated from
Harvard University
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''magna cum laude'', and
Columbia University
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with an M.F.A.
She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.
She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.
She teaches at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
. She has written for the ''New York Times'', ''Architectural Digest'', and is a contributing editor for ''Gourmet'', and staff writer at the ''New Yorker'', where she writes frequently about books and theatre. Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds.
Her poems have appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''Poetry'', ''Grand Street'', ''The Nation'', and are widely anthologized.
Awards
* National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry
* artist in residence at St. John the Divine.
* Peter I. Lavan Award
* New York Women's Press Award for Writing on the Arts
* Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry
* 2002, she received the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
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*2011
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Bibliography
Poetry
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*''The Ada Poems'', Alfred A Knopf 2010.
*''Orbit'', Alfred A. Knopf 2017.
;List of poems
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*Norton Anthology of Poetry
Non-fiction
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* "After Hamlet: A Shakespearian Maverick Comes to Broadway
''The New Yorker'' May 2008.
* "Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and The Perils of Childhood
''The New Yorker'' April 2006.
*"Teen Queen: Looking For Lady Jane
''The New Yorker'' October, 2007.
* ''An Enlarged Heart, A Personal History'', Alfred A. Knopf 2013.
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Children's books
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References
External links
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1959 births
Living people
Harvard University alumni
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Yale University faculty
American women poets
American women journalists
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American journalists
The New Yorker staff writers
American women academics