Cynthia Zarin
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Columbia University (MFA)
- Poet
- journalist
Cynthia Zarin | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Education | Harvard University Columbia University (MFA) |
| Occupations |
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| Spouses | Michael Seccareccia
(m. 1988, divorced)Joseph Goddu
(m. 1997, divorced) |
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 teaches at Yale University.[1] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,[2] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.[6]
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 (2002)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2011)
