Silvia Curbelo is a Cuban-born, American poet and writer.

Career

She is the author of four collections of poetry including ''Falling Landscape'' (

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, 2015) ''Ambush'' (Main Street Rag, 2004), ''The Secret History of Water'' (Anhinga Press, 1997), and her first chapbook, the winner of the 1990 Gerald Cable Poetry Chapbook Competition, ''The Geography of Leaving'' (Silverfish Review Press, 1991). Curbelo's poetry appears in over two dozen

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including ''The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry'' ( W.W. Norton), ''Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets'' (

), ''Norton's Anthology of Latino Literature'' ( W. W. Norton), and ''The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: The 20th Century'' ( Aunt Lute Books). Her poems have appeared in various journals, including ''

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Gettysburg Review ''The Gettysburg Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards. The little magazine "is recognized ...

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'', ''Indiana Review'', ''Crab Orchard Review'' and '' Tampa Review''.

Awards

She has received fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the

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, the

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, the ''

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'', the

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and

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for her poetry. She won the

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Cultural Exchange Fellowship to La Napoule Arts Foundation in France. In 1996 Curbelo won the Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Memorial Prize from the ''

''. She was the judge for the 2010

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Competition is a biennial program of Letras Latinas in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Press. Founded in 2004, the Latino poetry competition seeks to publish the first collection of a promising Lat ...

. Curbelo currently lives and works in

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, and was the editor of the now-defunct ''Organica Quarterly'' for more than 20 years.

References

External links

Curbelo
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Short biography and poems at
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Curbelo biography
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website
Biography at
Florida Commission for the Arts website.

Main Street Rag Press site. *http://www.anhingapress.org/silvia-curbelo/?rq=silvia%20 Falling Landscape collection of poems from Anhinga Press {{DEFAULTSORT:Curbelo, Silvia 21st-century American poets American women poets American writers of Cuban descent Cuban emigrants to the United States Hispanic and Latino American poets Living people Writers from Tampa, Florida Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers

Career

Awards

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