Cynthia Zarin
Cynthia Zarin is an American poet and journalist.
Life
She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.She teaches at Yale University. 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.
She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.
She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.
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
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Guggenheim Fellowship
Poetry
;Collections- The Ada Poems, Alfred A Knopf 2010.
- Orbit, Alfred A. Knopf 2017.
;Anthologies
- Norton Anthology of Poetry
Non-fiction
- "After Hamlet: A Shakespearian Maverick Comes to Broadway", May 2008.
- "Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and The Perils of Childhood", April 2006.
- "Teen Queen: Looking For Lady Jane", October, 2007.An Enlarged Heart, A Personal History, Alfred A. Knopf 2013.