Cynthia Zarin

Cynthia Zarin is the author of the novel Inverno; six books of poetry, including Orbit and Next Day: New and Selected Poems; five books for children; and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.