Silvia Curbelo


Silvia Curbelo is an award-winning Cuban-born, American poet and writer.

Career

She is the author of four collections of poetry including Falling Landscape Ambush, The Secret History of Water, and her first chapbook, the winner of the 1990 Gerald Cable Poetry Chapbook Competition, The Geography of Leaving.
Curbelo's poetry appears in over two dozen anthologies including The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry, Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets, Norton's Anthology of Latino Literature, and The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: The 20th Century.
Her poems have appeared in various journals, including American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review and Tampa Review.

Awards

She has received fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Seaside Institute, the Writer's Voice, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and Cintas Foundation for her poetry. She won the Atlantic Center for the Arts Cultural Exchange Fellowship to La Napoule Arts Foundation in France. In 1996 Curbelo won the Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review.
She was the judge for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
Curbelo currently lives and works in Tampa, Florida, and was the editor of the now-defunct Organica Quarterly for more than 20 years.