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 married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.
She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997.
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."https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/arts/dance/balletcollective-performs-at-the-skirball-center.html Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Nation, and are widely anthologized.

Awards

Poetry

“Elegant, interlocking essays... an underlying generosity of spirit. Her remembrances, while revealing, are refreshingly devoid of the medical-grade dysfunction we’ve come to expect from memoir.... An enlarged heart is surely a marvelous thing.” --San Francisco Chronicle