Cynthia Zarin

Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, including Orbit and The Ada Poems , as well as 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...See more

Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, including Orbit and The Ada Poems , as well as 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. See less