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American journalist

Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.

She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.

She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.[1]
She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.[2]

She teaches at Yale University.[3] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,[4] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.[5] 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.[6] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Nation, and are widely anthologized.

  • 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
  • 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship

Bibliography[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Collections
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
April 2020 Zarin, Cynthia (December 21, 2020). “April”. The New Yorker. 96 (41): 62–63.
Anthologies

Non-fiction[edit]

  • Robert Atwan, Louis Menand, ed. (2004). “An Enlarged Heart”. The Best American Essays 2004. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-35706-2.
  • Holly Hughes, ed. (2005). “The Big Cheese”. Best Food Writing 2005. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-1-56924-345-9.
  • “Seeing Things: The art of Olafur Eliasson”. The New Yorker. November 13, 2006.
  • “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.[8][9]
  • Two Cities. New York: David Zwirner Books. 2020.

Children’s books[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “Cynthia Zarin, Writer, Weds a Painter on L.I.” The New York Times. January 25, 1988.
  2. ^ “WEDDINGS; Cynthia Zarin and Joseph Goddu”. The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
  3. ^ “Welcome | English”.
  4. ^ “Archived copy”. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2009-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ “Cynthia zarin: Contributors : The New Yorker”. The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  6. ^ Macaulay, Alastair (Oct 30, 2014). “Leaping From Within, Narratives of a Young Ensemble”. The New York Times. Retrieved Aug 9, 2020.
  7. ^ “Library Journal”. Library Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-22. Read this new collection by Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, Zarin, and J.M.W. Turner comes to mind. (Or maybe George Inness.) In particular it recalls Turner’s late stage work, when issues of craft have been long resolved, and what we see is pure feeling, sublime and urgent…we are thrust into the eye of the storm by a strong hand. Zarin’s fifth collection (After “The Ada Poems”) is essential reading for those seeking magic on the page.
  8. ^ Beha, Christopher R. (2013-03-01). “‘An Enlarged Heart,’ by Cynthia Zarin”. The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  9. ^ “‘An Enlarged Heart’ by Cynthia Zarin”. BostonGlobe.com. 2018-08-03. Retrieved 2020-05-22.

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